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*.
[top] Design of composite elements and systems. Design of composite beams in the UK has traditionally been carried out to BS 5950-3-1. Composite slabs with profiled steel sheeting have been designed to BS 5950-4 and the profiled decking used for those slabs to BS 5950-6. There was no British Standards guidance for composite columns. Design of composite beams and composite slabs(for buildings) is now covered by BS EN 1994-1-1.