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*.
Figure a) shows an old floor reinforced with âtrimmed joists. Steel beam reinforcement is performed using U-type channels, braced to limit the risks of warping and positioned on one or both sides of the piece to be strengthened. Defective joists, often warped, are secured to these new sections.II-2. In the case of floors, reinforcement of the initial steel section is performed by the addition of steel flats and/or sections, which are fastened to the original beam by welding, bolting or bonding.