Dear sir,
In My attached fil,I am creating a deck slab to make my steel beams as a composite beams.But I notice deck slab somewhere missing the steel beams .some beams are not composite?Why it is happening?do I have to add that beams manually in stad editor?
2.In other file I am using composite beam method. Which method you suggest ?is stiffeness increased in deck slab method?Self weight of concrete stad calculated automatically in both method by concrete width?calc5 deck f.std8863.calc4.std