BS 5950-3.1(1990) : 1990

Committees responsible
Foreword
Section 1. General
1.0 Introduction
1.1 Scope
1.2 Definitions
1.3 Major symbols
1.4 Design procedure
Section 2. Limit state design
2.1 General principles and design methods
2.2 Loading
2.3 Ultimate limit states
2.4 Serviceability limit states
Section 3. Materials
3.1 Structural steel
3.2 Concrete
3.3 Reinforcement
3.4 Shear connectors
3.5 Profiled steel sheets
3.6 Concrete flange
Section 4. Section properties
4.1 Modular ratio
4.2 Second moment of area
4.3 Elastic section modulus
4.4 Moment capacity
4.5 Limiting proportions of cross sections
4.6 Effective breadth of concrete flange
Section 5. Composite beams: ultimate limit state
5.1 General
5.2 Moments in continuous beams
5.3 Design of members
5.4 Shear connection
5.5 Partial shear connection
5.6 Transverse reinforcement
Section 6. Composite beams: serviceability
6.1 Deflections
6.2 Irreversible deformation
6.3 Cracking
6.4 Vibrations
Appendix A Guidance on additional aspects of construction
Appendix B Formulae for calculating section properties
Appendix C Classification of webs
Appendix D General methods for determining moments in
           continuous beams
Publications referred to

Provides recommendations for the design of simply supported and continuous composite beams, comprising hot rolled steel sections, plate girders and hollow sections acting compositely with reinforced concrete slab, or with a composite slab complying with BS 5950-4.