In view of the increasing need of industry and infrastructure these days, finding thernstructural element that capable of transferring high load are critical. Corbels are widelyrnused in concrete structures in view of the advantages such as transferring high load to thernsupporting. Yielding of tension tie, failure of end anchorage of the tension tie, failure ofrnconcrete by compression or shearing and bearing failure are the main contribution tornfailure of reinforced concrete corbels. Thus, stress analysis and parametric study hasrnbecome popular as an area of research on corbels to minmize the failure and optimalrndesign of corbels.rnThis thesis presents a parametric study of the behavior of reinforced concrete corbelsrnusing finite element analysis software ANSYS. The parameters taken into considerationrnhas been geometry of a corbel (width, thickness, outside edge depth and shear span torneffective depth ratio), concrete strength, reinforcement ratio, loading condition (uniform,rnline and concentrated load) and type of modeling (2D and 3D). These variables havernbeen used to conduct a series of finite element analyses for the purpose of achieving thernobjective of this thesis. Finally, the result obtained from the finite element analysis hasrnbeen presented and compared with a strut and tie model.rnConclusions were then made concerning the effects of adjusting the parameters of thernmodel. By increasing thicknesses, width, and outside edge depth of RC corbels, both therndeflection and the principal stress have been reduced. As the shear span to effectiverndepth ratio increase, the deflection and principal stress also increased. Corbels subjectedrnto loading condition varies from uniformly distributed to concentrated, there were arnsignificant reduction in the principal stress. And also the results showed that modelingrnusing two dimensional approach gives lower values of stress and deflection than a fullrnthree dimensional model. A comparison of principal stress showed that the solutionsrnbased on finite element analysis deviated slightly from the strut and tie model.rnKey words: Corbels, Finite Element, Strut and Tie Model