One high strength concrete short beam and two PE-ECC short beams were designed and fabricated, the shear tests of these short beams were carried out, and the shear capacity calculation of these short beams were done by using the strut-and-tie model method, the finite element method and the method in the current Chinese code. The results have indicated that shear failure has occurred in the three short beams, but the high strength concrete short beam has undergone shear-compression failure, and the PE-ECC short beams have undergone flexure-shear failure. The PE-ECC short beams have higher value of cracking load and ultimate load and exhibit better shear ductility, compared with the high strength concrete short beam. Meanwhile, the strut-and-tie model method and the finite element method can reasonably predict the shear capacity of these short beams，and the code method seem to be too conservative.