Technological development and engineering applications of novel steel-concrete composite structures

Abstract

In view of China’s development trend of green building and building industrialization, based on the emerging requirements of the structural engineering community, the development and proposition of novel resource-saving high-performance steel-concrete composite structural systems with adequate safety and durability has become a kernel development trend in structural engineering. This paper provides a state of the art review of China’s cutting-edge research and technologies in steel-concrete composite structures in recent years, including the building engineering, the bridge engineering and the special engineering. This paper summarizes the technical principles and applications of the long-span bi-directional composite structures, the long-span composite transfer structures, the comprehensive crack control technique based on uplift-restricted and slip-permitted (URSP) connectors, the steel plate concrete composite (SPCC) strengthen technique, and the innovative composite joints. By improving and revising traditional structure types, the comprehensive superiority of steel-concrete composite structures is well elicited. The research results also indicate that the high-performance steel-concrete composite structures have a promising popularizing prospect in the future.

Keywords

high-performance composite structure / bi-directional composite / composite transfer / uplift-restricted and slip-permitted connectors / steel plate concrete composite strengthen

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Acknowledgments

The writers gratefully acknowledge the financial support provided by the Thirteenth Five-Year plan major projects supported by the National Key Research Program of China (Grant number 2017YFC0703405) and the State Key Laboratory Program for Track Technology of High-Speed Railway (Grant number 2017YJ094).

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