2583-7214 TMP Universal Journal of Research and Review Archives 2583-7214 Ms Ashvi Jain 10.69557/ujrra.v3i4.131 AN EMPIRICAL ASSESSMENT OF THE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF COMPOSITE DECKS CONSTRUCTED VIA THE LAYERING METHOD AS COMPARED TO A FOREIGN SPECIMEN Sarlak Mansur Department of Technical and engineering, Faculty of Technical and engineering, University of Lorestan, aligoudarz, Iran 23 12 2024 3 4 2024 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License which permits unrestricted use, sharing, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

This research investigated the mechanical properties of a composite deck and determined the maximum percentage of its components. A foreign specimen (L: 29 cm, W: 14.5 cm, and T: 2 cm) was first prepared and validated for its components by weighing and then placing it in 30 steps of one and two hours in a 200 °C and a 500 °C oven. The composite deck’s components were partially disassembled at each step, and the identified parts were weighted and compared with the currently available industrial materials. Overall, identifying the main components allows for the feasibility study of composite deck construction. In this research, the proposed composite was first constructed by imitating the foreign specimen and then evaluated by relevant tests to compare it with the foreign counterpart for its mechanical properties.

 Keywords Composite deck Profile sheet Mechanical properties Sliding Deflection