Table. 5: Joint panel shear behaviour: characteristic points.

    Backbone Point     τj     γjoint
    cracking     Model by Uzumeri [32]     0.05%
    pre-peak     0.93·τj,max (if J-failure); τj,y (if BJ-failure)     0.42%
    peak     Eq. (6)     0.67%
    residual     0.42·τj,max     3.80%