TY - CHAP
T1 - Design Strategies and Technical Practices for Reusable Steel–Concrete Composite Structural Systems
AU - Kavoura, Florentia
AU - Veljkovic, Milan
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - The technical solutions and design strategies for deconstruction are reviewed and investigated in the building sector in order to achieve the sustainability goals set in the EU Commission´s “Green Deal” towards net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. The demountable and reusable steel–concrete composite structures could contribute immensely to the achievement of these sustainability goals. The main technical practice which allows for demountability and reusability is the use of bolted connections on the skeleton of the steel structure with the parallel use of demountable shear connectors in their floor systems with the steel load-bearing beams. However, there is a very limited number of studies and methods into specific demountable and steel–concrete composite structural systems, and even fewer focus on their practicability and feasibility. Since these systems have the potential to reduce embodied carbon impacts, encourage resource efficiency and, reduce construction waste, their feasibility and technical practices should be investigated. This paper focuses on technical solutions and design strategies that currently have been developed for steel and steel–concrete composite reusable structural systems.
AB - The technical solutions and design strategies for deconstruction are reviewed and investigated in the building sector in order to achieve the sustainability goals set in the EU Commission´s “Green Deal” towards net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. The demountable and reusable steel–concrete composite structures could contribute immensely to the achievement of these sustainability goals. The main technical practice which allows for demountability and reusability is the use of bolted connections on the skeleton of the steel structure with the parallel use of demountable shear connectors in their floor systems with the steel load-bearing beams. However, there is a very limited number of studies and methods into specific demountable and steel–concrete composite structural systems, and even fewer focus on their practicability and feasibility. Since these systems have the potential to reduce embodied carbon impacts, encourage resource efficiency and, reduce construction waste, their feasibility and technical practices should be investigated. This paper focuses on technical solutions and design strategies that currently have been developed for steel and steel–concrete composite reusable structural systems.
KW - Demountable shear connectors
KW - Reusability of composite floors
KW - Sustainable structural design
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85179682111&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-45980-1_4
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-45980-1_4
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85179682111
T3 - Springer Tracts in Civil Engineering
SP - 39
EP - 46
BT - Creating a Roadmap Towards Circularity in the Built Environment,
A2 - Bragança, L.
PB - Springer
ER -