Abstract
Students studying to be an architect well handle virtual tools such as CAD and Illustrator, while they have slight chances to feel "real technologies". Structural experiment lecture has a potentiality to supply the senses of material quality and structural load to their mind and even to their bodies. Those senses are very important for the students to reach the threshold of architects. Proposed test method of RC beam is based on the load generated by highly elastic steel bars, i.e., PC bars. The students can feel the load level and the deformation level through the torque and the rotation of screw nuts attached to PC bars. Simple beams are tested in parallel so that even forty students are able to participate in the tests at the same time. Thus, the students feel the energy dissipation of ductile beams with their own sweats.
