An experimental investigation was conducted to study the shear strength and cracking behavior of beams made with self-consolidating concrete (SCC) as well as normal concrete (NC). A total of 12 flexurally reinforced concrete beams which consist of 8 beams with self-compacting concrete and 4 beams with normal concrete, with no shear reinforcement, were tested under mid-span concentrated load until shear failure occurred. The main variables in the test are concrete strength and shear span ratio. While, based on the test data in this study, several shear strength models:GB 50010-2010, Zsutty' formula, ACI 318-11 were analyzed and compared. The shear experimental test data of 130 self-consolidating concrete and 798 normal concrete simply-supported rectangular cross-section beams without web reinforcement were collected to compare the shear capacity between SCC and NC beams. The results show that:In terms of crack morphology, crack progression, the behavior of the SCC and CC beams is virtually identical, and the inclined section of SCC beams are more smooth; The calculated results of Zsutty' fit are closest to the experimental results; the results of GB 50010-2010 are also in good agreement, but are not safe; the deviation of ACI 318-11 is larger; and the ultimate shear strength of SCC beams is found to be slightly lower than the NC beams.