The research work in composite slabs so far conducted has investigated various alternatives for the development of an economic and efficient composite slab system. These alternatives evaluated the effectiveness of the concrete to steel plate bonding by means of: web corrugations (Andrade, 1986), self-drilling bolts (Takey, 2001), cold formed channel sections with diaphragms (Vieira, 2003), and the used of deep circular corrugations, (Beltrão, 2003). The present investigation main objective was to develop a cold formed profile presenting an efficient connection between the concrete and the steel profile that yields a ductile behaviour for such system. The first step of the investigation was devoted to the assessment of an optimum cold-formed profile geometry. This task was made taking into account parameters like: profile weight, plate thickness, yield stress, maximum span and load carrying capacity among others. Following the definition of the optimum cold formed steel profile an experimental program was conceived and executed. The first part of the experiments consisted on pull-outs tests made to access the concrete to steel bond resistance. This was followed by simple supported tests on the cold formed steel profile to evaluate their stiffness during concrete casting operation. Finally a full-scale composite slab system was performed. The main aim of this test was to determine the composite system load carrying capacity, typical failure modes, associated stresses and displacements. The final phase of this dissertation depicts comparisons of the already mentioned experiments to other tests made by Takey (Takey, 2001), and Beltrão (Beltrão, 2003), as well as comparison of theoretical results, to validate the proposed composite slab system results.