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Parametric study on composite steel beams with precast concrete hollow core floor slabs

This paper describes the finite element modelling of steel beams acting compositely with
proprietary precast hollow core slabs. A companion paper (Lam D, Elliott KS, Nethercot DA.
Experiments on composite steel beams with precast hollow core floor slabs. Proceedings of
the Institution of Civil Engineers: Structures and Buildings 1999; in press [1]) reports results
of full scale bending tests and compression slab tests. The finite element package ABAQUS
was used to extend the scope of the experimental work, by first demonstrating that a 2-dimensional
plane stress analysis is sufficiently accurate, providing that the correct material input
data and shear stud characteristics obtained from isolated push-off tests are used. The FE
results are within 5% of the experimental results. An extensive parametric study was carried
out to investigate the flexural behaviour of composite beams with variations in transverse
reinforcement ratio, stud spacing and steel UB section.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:BRADFORD/oai:bradscholars.brad.ac.uk:10454/5627
Date January 2000
CreatorsLam, Dennis, Elliott, K.S., Nethercot, D.A.
Source SetsBradford Scholars
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeArticle, No full-text in the repository

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