Description

A concise and accessible guide to the practical and economical design of composite buildings, Steel-Concrete Composite Buildings employs the latest methods as outlined in Eurocodes and includes up-to-date examples of the uses of composite construction in buildings in the UK, US, Asia and other parts of the world.

The book covers a wide range of structures, from simple beam and slab structures through to problems associated with composite construction in high rise structures, and specialist problems such as dynamics. Showing how composite structures may be designed simply from basic concepts without the need for a clause by clause checking of codes and standards, all chapters use real world examples of buildings from around the globe to illustrate design and construction methods. Test results are used extensively to demonstrate the behaviour of the structure being designed, helping to clarify the limitations of the codes.

The essential reference for those engaged in design of composite structures, Steel-Concrete Composite Buildings will provide readers not only with simpler methods for design and construction but also a deeper understanding of these methods and how they are verified against the latest design codes.

Civil and structural engineers worldwide will find this book a timely and highly useful practical guide to this important area of design and construction.

This book is a companion to Steel-Concrete Composite Bridges, also by David Collings.

Contents

• General concepts
• Composite Slabs
• Composite Beams
• Asymmetric, encased and castellated sections
• Composite Columns 
• Trusses
• Braced frames
• Cantilevers, cracking and double composite beams
• Moment resisting frames
• Serviceability and construction issues
• Accidental actions, robustness, disproportionate collapse
• Fire