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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 />

To buy a hardcopy version of this document call 01344 872775 or go to http://shop.steelbiz.<strong>org</strong>/<br />

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

Fig. 21.10 Welding of shear-connector through steel decking to a beam<br />

Basic design 615<br />

based on two failure modes: failure of the concrete and failure of the steel. The<br />

upper bound strength is given by shear failure of the shank and therefore there is<br />

apparently little advantage in using high-strength concrete.<br />

In BS 5950: Part 3 and Eurocode 4, the design resistance of the shear-connectors<br />

is taken as 80% of the nominal static strength. Although this may broadly be considered<br />

to be a material factor applied to the material strength, it is, more correctly,<br />

a factor to ensure that the criteria for plastic design are met (see below). The design<br />

resistance of shear-connectors in negative (hogging) moment regions is conservatively<br />

taken as 60% of the nominal resistance. In BS 5400: Part 5, an additional<br />

material factor of 1.1 is introduced to further reduce the design resistance of the<br />

shear connectors.

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