Innovative beam-to-wall joints in steel-concrete structural solutions

Abstract

This paper presents the innovative solutions to connect steel and composite beams to structural reinforced concrete walls developed within the RFCS research project "InFaSo". Two types of joints were studied: pinned and moment resistant. The evaluation of the joints behavior was performed experimentally and complemented with the development of analytical component based models. The comparison of results showed a good agreement between models and experiments. The analyzed joints demonstrated to be competitive solutions taken into account their structural performance, simplicity of modeling and of execution.