itr 70° HTH rien ae ipRaRy “senc °7/ Design of Composite Steel-Concrete Structures Lloyd C. P. Yam Head of Structural Design Division Building Research Station Garston, U.K. Surrey University PressPublished by Surrey University Press ‘A member of the Blackie Group Bishopbriggs, Glasgow and Furnival House, 14-18 High Holborn, London © 1981 Lloyd C. P. Yam : First published 1981 All rights reserved. No part ofthis publication ‘may be reproduced, stored ina retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, recording or otherwise, without prior permission ofthe Publishers. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Yam, Lloyd P Design of composite steel-concrete structures — (Design of structures series). 1. Composite construction 2._ Structural design 1. II. Series 624'.1821 TAS64 J ISBN 0-903384-22-1 Printed in Great Britain by Thomson Litho Ltd., East Kilbride, ScotlandSeries Foreword This book forms part of a series dealing with the design of structures. The emphasis is on the word design as this is the crucial part of an engineer's activity, which distinguishes him from a scientist working in the related field. The engineer must be able to synthesize the information available for the purpose of creating on paper that which is to be built, ie, designing. This activity requires knowledge of analysis of the whole as: well as of the components of that which is being designed. It requires also knowledge of the codes and standards in force and what is considered good engineering practice. Finally, design requires engineering judgement. and judgement can come only with experience. This is why a university course, even if design-oriented as at a few universities, does not produce a designer. The young graduate, however bright, when confronted with his first, and possibly not only first, design job simply lacks the background for his new task, This is where the books in the present series come in: they make it possible to approach the task of design in a reasonable manner. [The books cover mainly the field of structural design. Recent titles include Glass-Reinforced Plasties in Construction (L.. Holloway) and. Design of Structural Steelwork (P. R. Knowles). These are the sort of design probleme gxamples. Such an approach may seem old-fashioned to an enthusiast of pure analysis but example and precept are essential if modern design is to build upon the accumulated stores of successful design used in the past. Indeed, modern disciplines have borrowed our approach but re-named it “case study”. The books in the present series should thus prove of great value to the young engineer and also to his slightly senior colleague who is designing in an unfamiliar field. For these people the book is a “must”. But itis also a wise investment (and in these inflationary days such is not easy to come by) for the undergraduate who appreciates the importance of design. With the ad of the