steel concrete composite beams with partial interaction 1

[BuruMarius]

Hello everyone,

I am studying the behaviour of composite beams with full and partial interaction subjected to gravity and lateral loads.
I use shell elements to model the steel beam and solid elements to model the concrete plate. The models are analysed using the Abaqus software.
So far i made the models with full interaction but now i don't know how to model the partial interaction behaviour.
Can anybody give me some suggestions?

Thank you

 

[IceBreakerSours]

What do you mean by full and partial interaction?

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