“…Previous research has demonstrated that this critical value is closely related to the concrete cover depth (Li et al, 2018), strength and type of concrete (Alavi-Fard and Marzouk, 2002; Campione et al, 2005; Hota and Naaman, 1997), and hoop confinement (Eligehausen et al, 1983) etc. Moreover, the deterioration of the bond strength is also related to the geometry and diameter of the steel bars (Li et al, 2007; Murcia-Delso et al, 2013; Zuo and Darwin, 2000), lateral pressure on the concrete (Li et al, 2018, 2022), level of corrosion (Kivell et al, 2015; Wang et al, 2019; Zhou et al, 2015) and environmental conditions (Hu et al, 2019; Xu et al, 2017). During the service life of the reinforced concrete structures, the steel bars may experience cyclic reversed loading with arbitrary amplitude (Zhang et al, 2021), and the hysteretic bond-slip relationship under reversed loading with variable amplitude shall be revealed to establish the bond stress-slip model.…”