Provisions of Indian (IS 456: 2000), European (EC2 - 1992) and American (ACI - 318) codes of practice for
the design of RC deep beams have been critically studied and reported. As per the recommendations of these codes,
RC deep beams have been designed adopting limit state method. The quantities of concrete and steel and the total
cost of deep beams for three different spans have been calculated and are compared using bar chart.