Composite Beam to Cfst Column Connection Beahviour

Nowadays, concrete filled steel tube columns (CFST) are commonly used in composite construction. However, not many research studies are found on the application of a CFST together with a composite beam. This book is carried out to study the behaviour of a composite connections which include a combination of a 'CFST' and a composite beam. In this book, the composite connections was connected via two different types of innovative connections; blind bolt and thorough bolts and combined with the contribution of reinforcement bars in a slab to the tensile strength. Three dimensional (3-D) finite element (FE) modeling was used to investigate the structural behavior of this type of composite connections which are the moment- rotation and the stress distribution characteristic.