Design of Hybrid Structures: Where Steel Profiles Meet Concrete [Paperback]

1. Hybrid structure in the real world.  2. Load introduction and force transfer mechanisms at steel profile-concrete interface.  3. Analysis of hybrid steel concrete structures and components.  4. Hybrid walls and columns.  5. Transition between composite and reinforced concrete members.  6. Connections of reinforced concrete beams or flat slabs to steel columns by shear-keys. 

This guide focuses on design approaches for concrete structures reinforced in an unconventional way by steel profiles. It draws on the European Smartcoco research project, of experimentation and numerical modelling, giving practical guidance for designers and introducing the subject for researchers and graduate students.

Andr? Plumier, Honorary Professor at the University of Li?ge, obtained his PhD on welding residual stresses and their effect on stability. He has participated in twenty research projects in earthquake engineering and hybrid structures. He conceived the dogbone, a detail for the ductility of steel structures. He was one expert building up the Eurocode 8 for seismic design (2004), to the revision of which he now officially contributes. Active as support in projects involving hybrid details and seismic assessment and retrofitting, he has also given seminars on seismic design.

Herv? Deg?e started as research associate at the University of Li?ge working on stability issues in steel and steel-concrete structures in normal and seismic conditions. Since 2014, he is professor at Hasselt University (Belgium) where he is heading the Structural Testing Laboratory (ACB?). He has been participating to about 20 European research projects and is very active in the standardization at national and European level, being a member of various working groups for Eurocodes 3, 4, 6 and 8.

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