Composite concrete-steel beams are widely used for highway bridge structures and to a lesser extent for building floors. These structures are made from steel beams which support a concrete slab. The concrete slab serves a dual purpose: It provides a deck or working surface and it acts as the top flange of the supporting beam. The compressive forces are resisted by the concrete slab; the tensile forces are resisted by the steel beam; and the horizontal shear between these two elements is resisted by shear connectors which are welded to the steel beam and embedded in the concrete slab. The resulting structure has greater stiffness, shallower construction, greater live load factor of safety and often greater economy than a non-composite structure designed for the same loads.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.113781 |
| Date | January 1962 |
| Creators | Stonehewer, John. |
| Contributors | De Stein, J. (Supervisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Engineering. (Department of Engineering.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: NNNNNNNNN, Theses scanned by McGill Library. |
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