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Cold-formed steel (CFS) composite beams reinforced with diagonal rebars and fly ash concrete offer enhanced structural performance. These beams demonstrate doubled moment capacity and high ductility, reducing building height and improving earthquake resistance.

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  • Structural Engineering
  • Materials Science
  • Sustainable Construction

Background:

  • Cold-formed steel (CFS) sections offer cost-effective and lightweight structural members.
  • Traditional CFS beams with thin webs face challenges like plate buckling under heavy loads.
  • Increasing beam depth to avoid buckling raises building floor heights.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the structural behavior of CFS composite beams reinforced with diagonal rebars.
  • To evaluate the effectiveness of concrete encasement with fly ash for web strengthening.
  • To assess the impact on moment capacity, ductility, and stiffness.

Main Methods:

  • Experimental testing of twelve built-up CFS beams, with and without concrete encasement.
  • Inclusion of diagonal rebars in shear and flexure zones.
  • Use of fly ash as a 40% cement replacement in concrete mix.
  • Nonlinear finite element analysis using ANSYS software.

Main Results:

  • CFS beams with fly ash concrete encased webs exhibited double the moment resisting capacity of plain CFS beams.
  • Composite beams demonstrated high ductility and improved load-deflection behavior.
  • Experimental and numerical results showed good agreement.

Conclusions:

  • CFS composite beams with fly ash concrete encasement provide a significant increase in load-carrying capacity.
  • This strengthening method allows for reduced beam depth, leading to lower building floor heights.
  • The enhanced ductility makes these composite beams suitable for earthquake-resistant designs.