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Experimental behaviour of steel beam-column subassemblies with different slab configurations

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Chaudhari, Tushar, MacRae, Gregory, Bull, Des, Clifton, Charles and Hicks, Stephen (2019) Experimental behaviour of steel beam-column subassemblies with different slab configurations. Journal of Constructional Steel Research, 162 . 105699. doi:10.1016/j.jcsr.2019.105699

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Abstract

Four full-scale steel moment resisting frame (MRF) beam-column subassemblies with different slab configurations, plus another without a slab, were experimentally tested under reversed cyclic loading to drifts of up to 5%, to determine their strengths and deformation capacities. The slabs consisted of concrete, with different arrangements of reinforcing bars, cast on cold-formed steel decking. They were connected to structural steel beams using shear studs. The different slab configurations included: (i) full isolation of the slab from the column, end plates, bolts and haunches; (ii) a shear key within the column web with the slab isolated from the column flange outside faces; (iii) a modified shear key within the column web with a confinement plates and slab isolated from the outside faces of the column flanges; and (iv) a full depth confined slab around the columns.
It was shown that slab damage could be avoided by fully isolating the column from the slab with appropriate material. The isolated slab subassembly lateral strength was that of the bare frame with enhanced ductility. In the other tests without a fully confined slab, the strength increased up to 30% but degraded to that of the bare steel subassembly alone as a result of slab damage. Slab failure modes included concrete spalling where the slab was bearing against the column, shear failure of the concrete shear key between the flange tips and failure within the shear key due to slab reinforcing bars slicing through the concrete there. By using a confined full depth slab, the strength and stiffness increased by almost 50 and 87%, respectively and there was little strength loss.

Item Type: Journal Article
Divisions: Faculty of Science > Engineering
Journal or Publication Title: Journal of Constructional Steel Research
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd.
ISSN: 0143-974X
Official Date: November 2019
Dates:
DateEvent
November 2019Published
2 August 2019Available
16 July 2019Accepted
Volume: 162
Article Number: 105699
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcsr.2019.105699
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Restricted or Subscription Access

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