Abstract: The present study investigated the effects of shear slip on the deformation of steel–concrete composite beams. The equivalent rigidity of composite beams considering three different loading types was first derived based ...

Abstract: An analytical model that incorporates time-dependent effects (creep and shrinkage) was developed to predict the long-term deflection of cracked reinforced concrete beams under sustained loading. The deflection model includes ...

Abstract: The concept of confined concrete has been widely accepted throughout the structural engineering field, such as the spiral, steel tube, or carbon fiber composite shell confined concrete, etc. In the present study, this ...

Abstract: A new connection system for a concrete filled steel tube composite column and reinforced concrete beams is proposed. In this connection, the steel tube is interrupted while the reinforced concrete beams are continuous in ...

Abstract: Compared with simply supported beams, continuous steel–concrete composite beams have many advantages such as higher span/depth ratio, less deflection, and higher fundamental frequency of vibration due to its higher stiffness. ...

Abstract: This paper proposes a new kind of composite waffle slab that consists of orthogonal steel girders and flat RC slab. The steel beams help decrease the cracking that occurs with concrete, and using prefabricated RC slabs ...

Abstract: A new type of steel-concrete composite cable anchorage system is conceived and investigated preliminarily for self-anchored suspension bridges with steel box girders to optimize the mechanical behavior of the conventional ...

Abstract: The longitudinal stiffness of multispan suspension bridges plays an important role in load-resisting systems. In this paper, a model defined as the kinematic multispring (KMS) model is proposed for simulating the longitudinal ...

Abstract: The analysis and design of composite girders of cable-stayed bridges are discussed. Cable-stayed bridge girders carrying both axial forces and bending moments are actually beam-columns. The distribution of axial forces ...

Abstract: Static loading tests were conducted on 16 steel–concrete composite beams and two steel beams to investigate shear resisting mechanisms and the strength of composite beams. The main experimental parameters were the shear ...