Syllabus: Steel and Concrete Composite Structure

Syllabus: Steel and Concrete Composite Structure

Course number： credit： 2

total hours：36hrs：Lectures 32hrs, Seminars 4hrs

Course organizer：Professor Shiming Chen

1. Scopes

The course is prepared for postgraduate students in civil engineering. The fundamental objectives of the course are training the students to gain knowledge of steel and concrete composite structures, tomaster the design principle and construction application of composite structure,and to know key research/application topics in composite structures. It is emphasized at explaining the composite action of the two different materials,describing fundamentals which have to be taken into account in the design of composite structures,and teaching the design principles and the design methods of steel and concrete composite members such as composite beams, composite slab and composite columns particularly used in building construction. The main contents of the course are:general introduction; design principles and fundamentals of composite action;composite slab; composite beams simply supported; shear connection; continuous composite beams; composite columns; frame beam to column joints. Besides lecturing hour, each student is encouraged to focus on the recent development and application of the composite construction technology, to prepare seminar notes and have seminar discussions.

CONTENTS

General introduction, Composite action in beams, slabs, columns

Design principles and Fundamentals of Composite Action

Shear Connection: Behaviour and tests;Shear Connection Design

Composite slab: floor with steel profiled sheeting

Steel and concrete composite beams: Simply supported beams Ultimate strength; Elastic analysis; deflectionDesign and assessing example of composite beams; Buckling and rigid plastic analysis in composite beams;Continuous composite beams

Composite Columns:

Frame and beam to column joints

Finite element modeling in composite structures

Seminar + Discussion On selected topics

Introduction to fire resistance design of composite structures

BIBLIOGRAPHY :

Composite Structures:lecture notes written in English, by Shiming Chen, 2009

Composite Structures of steel and concrete: Beams, Slabs,Columns, Frames for buildings by R.P. Johnson Blackwell Publishing, 2004

Composite construction, by D.A. Nethercot, an e-library book,2004.

Steel and Concrete Composite Structures, By Jianguo Nie, Ming Liu and Lieping Ye. China Architecture and Building Press, 2005 (in Chinese)

ASSESSMENT METHOD :

Quiz + course reports

PRE-REQUISITE :

strength of material;

structural mechanics

fundamentaland design principle of concrete structures

fundamentaland design principle of steel structures