Abstract. This paper deals with the analysis of cracked flexural reinforced concrete structures with special highlighting of modelling the interaction between concrete and reinforcement. A new approach based on the bond stress distribution through the transfer length between the zero-slip and the cracked sections is proposed. Since the cracking phenomenon of concrete occurs, the fracture energy changes in order to appeal to the interaction between concrete and steel. The increment of stresses is evaluated by the bond-slip distribution by means of one-dimensional problem. Besides, the 2D nonlinear description of components behaviour, concrete and steel are considered. On numerical modelling level, the interaction property is obtained from a variety of fundamental pull out and push out tests, for the most part this phenomenon does not very well represent the bending members. For this object, this study presents a numerical approach, which can compute the distribution stresses at the steel-concrete interface near flexural crack in reinforced concrete beams. Finally, predictions made by the non-linear finite element analysis program and the non-linear material models for concrete, reinforcing bars and bond slip are in good agreement with the experimental results.