Design of Steel-concrete Composite Structures Using High-strength Materials

High-strength materials offer alternatives to frequently used materials for high-rise construction. A material of higher strength means a smaller member size is required to resist the design load. However, high-strength concrete is brittle, and high-strength thin steel plates are prone to local buckling. A solution to overcome such problems is to adopt a steel-concrete composite design in which concrete provides lateral restraint to steel plates against local buckling, and steel plates provide confinement to high-strength concrete.

Design of Steel-Concrete Composite Structures Using High Strength Materials provides guidance on the design of composite steel-concrete structures using combined high-strength concretes and steels. The book includes a database of over 2,500 test results on composite columns to evaluate design methods, and presents calculations to determine critical parameters affecting the strength and ductility of high-strength composite columns. Finally, the book proposes design methods for axial-moment interaction curves in composite columns. This allows a unified approach to the design of columns with normal- and high-strength steel concrete materials.

This book offers civil engineers, structural engineers, and researchers studying the mechanical performance of composite structures in the use of high-strength materials to design and construct advanced tall buildings.

• Presents the design and construction of composite structures using high-strength concrete and high-strength steel, complementing and extending Eurocode 4 standards
• Addresses a gap in design codes in the USA, China, Europe and Japan to cover composite structures using high-strength concrete and steel in a comprehensive way
• Gives insight into the design of concrete-filled steel tubes and concrete-encased steel members
• Suggests a unified approach to designing columns with normal- and high-strength steel and concrete

J. Y. Richard Liew is a professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the National University of Singapore, Singapore. He is also a chartered engineer in the UK, a professional engineer in Singapore, and a chartered professional engineer of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. He has co-authored 5 books, more than 400 technical publications, sits on the boards of international journals, holds several honorary positions, and is a key person responsible for the development of Singapore’s national annexes for the design and steel and composite structures using Eurocodes 3 and 4.

Ming-Xiang Xiong is an associate professor in the School of Civil Engineering, Guangzhou University, Guangdong, China. He received his doctorate from the National University of Singapore. He has been involved in composite structure research and design for more than 15 years, and his extensive research focuses on steel-concrete composite structures subjected to static and extreme environmental load. He has authored and co-authored more than 20 journal papers and the Singapore code on composite structures known as BC4:2015.

Bing-Lin Lai is an assistant professor in the School of Civil Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, China. He received his doctorate from the National University of Singapore. His research mainly focuses on the behaviour and design of high-performance steel-concrete composite structures and prefabricated prefinished volumetric construction. He has authored and co-authored over 10 journal papers.