Analysis of Stud Spacing on the Mechanical Behaviour of Steel-Concrete Composite Beam under Uniform Load

Abstract

The stud spacing significantly affects the bond strength and interracial slip between steel and concrete of thin-walled steel-concrete composite beams, and it interacts with shear lag and shear deformation to affect the structural deflection and sectional stresses. In this paper, a new interracial slip model considering the influence of stud spacing and stud shear stiffness is proposed first, then a potential energy equation of a simply supported steel-concrete composite beam under vertical uniform load considering the coupled effect of interracial slip, shear lag and shear deformation is obtained, and the calculation formulae for structural deflections and sectional stresses are derived, in which the parameter of stud spacing is explicitly shown. The comparison between the observed data in the completed experiment with the theoretical values using the presented formulae and the design code formulae are fulfilled, showing that the presented formulae hold agreeable calculation precise. The proposed formulae can be used to estimate the influence of stud spacing on the mechanical behaviour of steel-concrete composite beams in the preliminary design.