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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT iv
TABLE OFCONTENTS v
LIST OF TABLES vii
LIST OF FIGURES viii

1. INTRODUCTION 1
1.1 GENERAL 1
1.2 NEED FOR RESEARCH 2
1.3 OBJECTIVES 2
1.4 SCOPE 2
1.5 RESEARCH SIGNIFICANCE 3
1.6 CLOSING REMARKS 3
2. LITERATURE REVIEW 4
2.1 GENERAL 4
2.2 REVIEW OF LITERATURE 4
2.3 SUMMARY OF LITERATURE REVIEW 8
2.4 CLOSING REMARKS 9
3. MATERIALS AND METHODOLOGY 10
3.1 GENERAL 10
3.2 METHODOLOGY 10
3.3 FINITE ELEMENT SOFTWARE- ABAQUS 11
3.4 MODELLING 11
3.4.1 Modeling Using Abaqus 12
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4. ANALYTICAL STUDY 16
4.1 GENERAL 16
4.2 LINEAR ANALYSIS 16
4.2.1 Composite Beam Without Shear 16
Connector Without Lip
4.2.2 Composite Beam With Shear 17
Connector Without Lip
4.2.3 Composite Beam With Shear 18
Connector And Lip
4.3 CLOSING REMARKS 18

5. RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS 19

5.1 GENERAL 19
5.2 RESULTS OF LINEAR ANALYSIS 19

6. WORKS TO BE DONE IN PHASE II 21

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3.1 Methodology 10
3.2 Cold Formed Steel Without Shear Connector 13
Without Lip
3.3 Cold Formed Steel With Channel type Shear 13
Connectors without Lip
3.4 Cold Formed Steel With Channel type Shear 14
Connector With Lip
3.5 Assembly of Steel Concrete Composite Beam 14

3.6 Interactions for Three Configurations of 15

Composite Beam
3.7 Meshing of Composite Beam 15

4.1 Load Vs Deflection of Composite beam without 17

Shear Connector & Lip
4.2 Load Vs Deflection of Composite beam with 17
Shear Connector without Lip
4.3 Load Vs Deflection of Composite beam with Lip 18
& Shear Connector
5.1 Comparison of Three Configurations of Steel 19
Concrete Composite Beams

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3.1 Details of the Composite beam 11
3.2 Properties of the Composite beam 12
5.1 Deflection Values for Three Different 20
Configurations of Composite beams
6.1 Work to be done in phase 2 19

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