EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION ON EFFECT OF ANGULAR SHEAR CONNECTOR IN COMPOSITE ELEMENT

The use of cold-formed steel sections as major structural members is still limited. This is largely due to thinness of the sections. Exploitation of composite principles seems appropriate for promoting the use of the sections to a wider range of applications. A steel-concrete composite column is a compression member, comprising either a concrete encased hot-rolled steel section or a concrete filled tubular section of hot-rolled steel and is generally used as a load-bearing member in a composite framed structure and girders used as a be am sections. Hence, a new type of composite cold-formed steel sections embedded in precast concrete plank where by usage of a new proposed shear transfer enhancement called Stud is suggested .