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Composite beam design with concrete beam without concrete slab

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ranawaseem

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I want to confirm if there is any difference between designing a composite steel beam with concrete slab

and the other option is:

instead of concrete slab what if I have only concrete beam.

I want them to behave as composite beam...so are the design steps and concepts same as in case of soild slab?

If they are same then I can use TATA BDES composite beam design tool and instead of 3m distributary width for slab on either side of beam, I can put half of the beam width dimension..right?
 
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