Aims: Study the repair and strengthening of the flat slab-edge column connections against punching shear. Study Design: Parametric study is carried out by varying the repair and strengthening number of stirrups rows and the stirrups materials. Methodology: This paper study the ef...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2016/30352
Aims: Study the flexural behavior of steel–concrete–steel sandwich slabs. Methodology: Ten SCS slabs full scale specimens were prepared and experimentally tested taking into account the variables of this study. Study Design: Parametric study is carried out by varying the thicknes...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2016/29007
Aims: Study the flexural behavior of the lapped connections in multi span cold-formed steel Z sections systems. Study Design: The effect of overlap length of the lapped connections was investigated in order to achieve the optimum overlap length/depth ratio. Different bolts arrang...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2015/18797