• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제49권1호
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• pp.19-30
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• 2023

Steel-concrete composite slabs represent a very efficient floor solution combining the key performance of two different materials: the steel and the concrete. Composite slab response is governed by the degree of the interaction between these two materials, mainly depending by chemical and mechanical bond. The latter is characterized by a limited degree of confinement if compared with the one of the rebars in reinforced concrete members while the former is remarkably influenced by the type of concrete and the roughness of the profiled surface, frequently lubricated during the cold-forming manufacturing processes. Indeed, owing to the impossibility to guarantee a full interaction between the two materials, a key parameter governing slab design is represented by the horizontal shear-bond strength, which should be always experimentally estimated. According to EC4, the design of the slab bending resistance, is based on the simplified assumption that the decking sheet is totally yielded, i.e., always in plastic range, despite experimental and numerical researches demonstrate that a large part of the steel deck resists in elastic range when longitudinal shear collapse is achieved. In the paper, the limit strain for composite slab, which corresponds to the slip, i.e., the debonding between the two materials, has been appraised by means of a refined numerical method used for the simulation of experimental results obtained on 8 different composite slab types. In total, 71 specimens have been considered, differing for the properties of the materials, cross-section of the trapezoidal profiled metal sheets and specimen lengths.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제13권6호
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• pp.571-586
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• 2012

The paper addresses some key issues related to the design of composite slabs with cold-formed profiled steel sheets. An experimental programme is first presented, involving six composite slab specimens tested with a view to evaluating Eurocode 4 (EC4) provisions on testing of composite slabs. In four specimens, the EC4-prescribed 5000 load cycles were applied using different load ranges resulting from alternative interpretations of the reference load $W_t$. Although the rationale of the application of cyclic loading is to induce loss of chemical bond between the concrete plate and the steel sheet, no such loss was noted in the tests for either interpretation of the range of load cycles. Using the recorded response of the specimens the values of factors m and k (related to interface shear transfer in the composite slab) were determined for the specific steel sheet used in the tests, on the basis of three alternative interpretations of the related EC4 provisions. The test results confirmed the need for a more unambiguous description of the m-k test and its interpretation in a future edition of the Code, as well as for an increase in the load amplitude range to be used in the cyclic loading tests, to make sure that the intended loss of bond between the concrete slab and the steel sheet is actually reached. The study also included the development of a special-purpose software that facilitates design of composite slabs; a parametric investigation of the importance of m-k values in slab design is presented in the last part of the paper.

• 한국강구조학회 논문집
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.323-333
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• 2007

본 논문은 본 연구자가 기존에 발표한 모듈단면 프로파일보를 개선하여 새로운 모듈을 제안하였으며 이를 바탕으로 휨보강을 실시하여 적절한 휨보강 방법을 제시하고자 하였다. 개선된 모듈은 기존의 모듈보다 향상된 내력 및 초기강성을 나타냈다. 휨보강은 T형 단면 강재와 철근을 이용하여 실시하였으며 실험결과 철근을 이용하여 휨보강을 실시하는 것이 우수한 것으로 나타났다. 휨내력은 재료 실험결과를 바탕으로 이론값과 비교하면 저조한 결과를 나타냈으나 재료의 설계기준강도를 이용하면 90%정도의 내력을 나타내 향후 T형보를 이용한 압축측 보강이 이루어진다면 모듈단면 프로파일보의 적용가능성은 충분하다고 판단된다.