1) This document discusses composite construction, specifically composite beams. Composite beams are made of concrete cast on top of a steel beam, connecting the two materials and allowing them to act compositely.
2) Shear connectors like headed studs or channels are embedded in the concrete to connect the steel and concrete sections. This allows stresses and forces to be transferred between the two materials, making the beam behave compositely.
3) The elastic stresses in composite beams, including flexural and shear stresses, are analyzed based on the beam behaving as two different materials connected together. Formulas are provided to calculate the stresses based on the transformed area concept, where the steel and concrete sections are converted to an equivalent steel area