Steel Concrete Composite Structures: State of Art

The aim of this review article is to examine solutions and challenges associated with composite construction. Structural steel and concrete, each of the two materials can be used to its best advantage and, therefore, composite structures have proved economical in terms of overall cost. Combination of steel and concrete systems has been conceived on the premises that each type of construction offers a natural advantage which when utilized together results in an efficient system. In the composite construction subjected to service load, in addition to instantaneous cracking, the time-dependent effects of creep and shrinkage in concrete can lead to the progressive cracking of concrete near the beam ends and result in considerable moment redistribution along with increase in deflections of composite beams. In the present article, a comprehensive review of analysis and behavior of composite construction with alternate shear connections are examined. Application of neural networks in composite construction has also been discussed in this article.