The impasse was only resolved by Jetty's death from a heart attack in April 1878. Strauss promptly remarried an actress, Angela (Lili) Dietrich, but the age difference (she was 27, he was 52), and his compulsive work patterns soon drove a wedge between them. Frustrated by his long absences and her dull life, she began an affair with theatre director George Steiner, eventually eloping with him.
A composite floor is comprised of a reinforced concrete floor slab and structural steel floor beams acting compositely together. The structure consists mainly of profiled steel decking working together with in-situ reinforced concrete*.
Interior Composites. A composite material usually forms the substrate for a laminate or veneer surface. Two of the most common composite materials are particleboard and medium-density fiberboard, or MDF. They are manufactured from a combination of wood chips, sawdust and adhesive, and they come in sheets or pre-cut and shaped for specific uses.