Deep beams are having small values of span to depth ratios. The presence of web openings in such beams is frequently required to provide accessibility such as doors and windows or to accommodate essential services such as ventilating and air conditioning ducts. Enlargement of such openings due to architectural/mechanical requirements and/or a change in the building's function would reduce the element's shear capacity, thus rendering a severe safety hazard. Two circular openings, one in each

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... r span, are placed symmetrically about the mid-point of the beam. External and Internal strengthening different methods are used to determine in structural response of RC deep beams with openings was primarily dependent on the degree of the interruption of the natural load path. Externally bonded FRP and steel plate are shear strengthening around the openings was found very effective in upgrading the shear strength of RC deep beams and internally strengthened by truss in different types to gain shear strength. Finite element modeling of RC deep beams containing openings strengthened with various methods is studied using ANSYS 16.1 and result compared with conventional method.