“…Although joints have a restricted area, they are strongly involved in the transfer of forces, mostly under earthquakes. In particular, they often present low shear strength in the joints, leading to brittle shear failures [1,2]. An inadequate design can lead to a shear failure of beam-column joints and to a consequent collapse of the structure [3], particularly in the case of earthquakes [4][5][6][7], even if they are expected to be safe according to classical seismic evaluations that column shear, the tensile forces of longitudinal bars that cross the joint panel are named F1, F2, F7, and F8, and the compressive forces (assumed as acting at the position of the bars) are named F3, F4, F5, and F6, while the F9, F10 are the resultant force carried by stirrups and/or eventual external reinforcement, and C is the concrete compressive resultants on half of the diagonal (i.e., 0.5H b /sin ϑ) of the joint panel.…”