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An experimental investigation on three shear-critical reinforced concrete beams was performed to investigate the mechanism of shear fatigue. The first beam was simply tested to failure under monotonic loading to determine the static capacity, whereas the other two were subjected to repetitive loading below its static capacity to failure. Of these two beams, one was subjected to a stationary pulsating load at midspan while the other was subjected to a step-wise moving load along the span. During each experiment, the crack pattern was monitored throughout using an automated crack mapping employing the digital image correlation technique. The results show that each beam exhibited a unique crack pattern which could be characterised as shear-flexure in nature. It is shown the nature of crack propagation under monotonic loading is dissimilar to that under repetitive loading, especially when the load is not …