TY  - JOUR
AB  - Static and fatigue tests have been conducted on Bi-Steel steel-concrete-steel sandwich beams. A truss model with tapering web compression members is proposed for calculating the forces within the beams. The model gains conservative predictions of the failure loads and modes of the beams. A deflection equation has been developed taking account the slip between steel plates and concrete, giving good agreement with measured values. A fatigue life calculation method has been proposed which takes into account interaction of the applied forces at bar-plate connections and gains conservative predictions of fatigue life.
AD  - Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine, London SW7 2AZ, UK
AU  - Foundoukos, N.
AU  - Xie, M.
AU  - Chapman, J. C.
DO  - 10.18057/IJASC.2008.4.2.4
IS  - 2
KW  - Sandwich construction, bi-steel, static tests, beams, strength, deflection, fatigue
PY  - 2008
SE  - 123
SP  - 11
ST  - Behaviour and design of steel-concrete-steel-sandwich construction
T2  - Advanced Steel Construction
TI  - Behaviour and design of steel-concrete-steel-sandwich construction
VL  - 4
ID  - 1
ER  -