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Abstract
An experimental investigation into the structural response of cold-formed steel-timber composite flooring systems with innovative and irregularly spaced shear connectors is presented in this paper. Five composite beam tests and a series of supporting material and push-out tests were carried out. The obtained results showed that the innovative shear connectors enabled the generation of considerable composite action, resulting in up to about 45 % increases in load-carrying capacity and 15 % and 20 % increases in the initial and mid-range stiffnesses respectively over the non-composite system. Methods for predicting the effective flexural stiffness and moment capacity of the examined cold-formed steel-timber composite beams are presented and validated against the derived physical test data. It is shown that accurate predictions for both the flexural stiffness and moment capacity can be obtained, with mean prediction-to-test ratios of 0.93 and 0.91 respectively.
期刊介绍:
Thin-walled structures comprises an important and growing proportion of engineering construction with areas of application becoming increasingly diverse, ranging from aircraft, bridges, ships and oil rigs to storage vessels, industrial buildings and warehouses.
Many factors, including cost and weight economy, new materials and processes and the growth of powerful methods of analysis have contributed to this growth, and led to the need for a journal which concentrates specifically on structures in which problems arise due to the thinness of the walls. This field includes cold– formed sections, plate and shell structures, reinforced plastics structures and aluminium structures, and is of importance in many branches of engineering.
The primary criterion for consideration of papers in Thin–Walled Structures is that they must be concerned with thin–walled structures or the basic problems inherent in thin–walled structures. Provided this criterion is satisfied no restriction is placed on the type of construction, material or field of application. Papers on theory, experiment, design, etc., are published and it is expected that many papers will contain aspects of all three.