Abstract: As a plane shock wave with shock mach number Mi propagates down a backward step of height H (fig 1) a part of the shock front turns to be curvilinear It reflects from the horizontal part behind step.This unsteady regular reflection eventually becomes Mach reflection.We present here the results of shock tube experiment (M_i ≤ 2.20) and numerical simulation of this phenomena, say the transition from regular reflection (RR) to Mach reflection (MR).The dependence of the position of transition L_k and critical angle of transition ω_Ck on strength of the impinging plane shock M_i and height of step H are analysed.Our experimental and numerical results are compared with the theoretical criLerion of transition of Iton & Itaya^[15].It should be mentioned that the numerical method of FLIC type with triangular mesh developed in^[13] is successful.