ABSTRACT
The use of partial strength or semi-rigid connections has been encouraged by codes and studies on the matter known as semi-continuous construction have proven that substantial savings in steel weight of the overall construction. Composite connections have been introduced in this paper to improve the performance of partial strength connection. The objective of this paper is to present a full scale testing of partial strength composite connections of flush end-plate connections using trapezoidal web profiled steel (TWP) sections. The trapezoidal web profiled steel section is a built up section where the flange is designed using S355 steel section and the web is designed using S275 steel section. The section of the beam is a TWP section whereas the column is a universal column of British section. The results of shear and moment resistance were compared with the predicted values adopted from Steel Construction Institute. The test results showed good agreement with the calculated predicted values.
