Nonlinear Behaviour of Multi-Joist Timber-Concrete Composite Floors

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This PhD study will use both tests and numerical analyses to understand the quasi-staticload responses of timber-concrete composite (TCC) floors. One emphasis will be the use offloor specimens with multiple timber joists, so as to build on previous work where a single Tsectioncomprising a width of slab with just one joist has been investigated. To that end, asmall number of multi-joist TCC specimens will be fabricated and tested, with significantinstrumentation used to work backwards to issues such as load-sharing between individualT-section TCCs. Nonlinear FE will be used to try and predict the measured load responses.Use of the verified FE as a tool to conduct wide-ranging parametric studies will be a keyfeature of the work, which is IStructE - funded and includes collaboration with ARUP.Publishing of journal papers (which Joshua and I along with co-authors from TrentoUniversity in Italy have already done on previous TCC work) will be a focus of this work, aswill presentations to industry at any available opportunity.