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This material is copyright - all rights reserved. Reproduced under licence from The <strong>Steel</strong> Construction Institute on 12/2/2007<br />

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<strong>Steel</strong> <strong>Designers</strong>' <strong>Manual</strong> - 6th Edition (2003)<br />

584 Composite deck slabs<br />

moment<br />

L<br />

(a)<br />

capacity<br />

(b)<br />

uniform<br />

load<br />

bending moment<br />

at failure<br />

curvature<br />

curvature<br />

Fig. 20.4 Ultimate behaviour of continuous decking: (a) moment on two-span decking,<br />

(b) typical moment – curvature relationship of decking<br />

good that, for all but very heavy imposed loads, permissible spans are controlled by<br />

the construction condition. Vertical shear rarely influences the design.<br />

Composite slabs are usually designed as simply-supported elements with no<br />

account taken of continuity provided by the reinforcement in the concrete at internal<br />

beams, reflecting the behaviour of an end-bay slab. However, internal bays will<br />

not fail by incomplete shear connection provided the decking is laid continuously<br />

over the supports, an observation which also applies to end anchorage, which need<br />

only be developed at the edge beams or at sheet discontinuities in a continuous<br />

composite slab.<br />

The ultimate resistance of composite slabs, in the absence of end anchorage, is<br />

controlled by a combination of friction and chemical bond, followed by mechanical<br />

interlock after initial slippage. As a result, the performance of a particular decking

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