Behaviour of steel-to-concrete joints

This paper presents innovative solutions for connecting steel and composite beams to structural reinforced concrete walls, as developed within the RFCS research project “InFaSo”. Two types of joints were studied: pinned and moment-resistant. The evaluation of the behaviour of the joints was performed experimentally and complemented by the development of analytical component-based models. The comparison of the results revealed good agreement between models and experiments. The joints analysed were shown to be competitive solutions taking into account their structural performance, simplicity of modelling and execution.