Download or read book Full-scale Tests of Channel Shear Connectors and Composite T-beams written by Ivan Miroslav Viest and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most common types of highway bridges in current use is the I-beam bridge, which consists of several steel I-beams supporting a reinforced concrete floor slab cast on top of the beams. The concrete slab may either rest freely on the beams or may be connected to their top flanges. Both types of bridges, called noncomposite and composite respectively, have been the subject of extensive theoretical and experimental investigations at the University of Illinois. In the scale-model composite bridges, tested at the University of Illinois, the slab was connected to the beams by means of channel shear connectors made of short pieces of steel channel welded to the top flanges of the I-beams and embedded in the slab. As a result of these investigations it was considered desirable to investigate further the behavior of both composite beams and shear connectors themselves.