Research Article
Performance of Shear Connector in Composite Slab and Steel Beam with Reentrant and Open Trough Profiled Steel Sheeting
Table 3
Meshing size and element types for all parts in the models.
| Parts | Mesh size (mm) | Element type |
| Steel beam | 12.5 | C3D8R: An 8-node linear brick, hourglass control, reduced integration | Concrete slab | 12 | C3D8R: An 8-node linear brick, hourglass control, reduced integration | Profiled steel sheeting | 12 | S4R: A 4-node doubly curved thin or thick shell, hourglass control, reduced integration, finite membrane strains | Demountable shear connector | 15 | C3D8R: An 8-node linear brick, hourglass control, reduced integration | Reinforcement bar | 30 | T3D2: A 2-node linear 3-D truss |
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