scholarly journals Impact of Variation in Plan Configuration on Structural Behaviour of Reinforced Concrete Building

Author(s):  
Akshit Kumar Ketanbhai Ravat

Nowadays high rise building is a new trend in India because day by day population increase and it’s a problem to accommodate large number of people in small place. To resolve this problem only one option is good which is vertical growth of building. Due to architectural purpose some building’s plan like L, C, E and + etc. cause plan irregularities and in elevation like vertical set-back type building cause vertical irregularities. These kind of shapes are creating problem for structural engineers because it demands serious damage in earthquake. In this study the main objective is to understand demand of lateral load on different plan aspect ratio and with varying heights of 18, 33 and 48meter. Modelling of varying heights OF 18, 33 and 48 meter R.C.C. framed building is done on the ETABS software for analysis. Post analysis of the structure, Centre of mass, Centre of resistance of building, maximum storey displacement, storey drift and base shear are computed and then compared for all the analyzed cases.

Author(s):  
Weng Y. Kam ◽  
Stefano Pampanin ◽  
Rajesh Dhakal ◽  
Henri P. Gavin ◽  
Charles Roeder

This paper describes observations of damage to reinforced concrete buildings from the September 2010 Darfield (Canterbury) earthquakes. Data was collated from first-hand earthquake reconnaissance observations by the authors, post-earthquake surveys, and communications and meetings with structural engineers in Christchurch. The paper discusses the general performance of several reinforced concrete building classes: pre-1976 low-rise, pre-1976 medium rise, modern low- and mid-rise, modern high-rise, industrial tilt-up buildings, advanced seismic systems and ground-failure induced damaged and retrofitted RC buildings. Preliminary lessons are highlighted and discussed. In general, reinforced concrete buildings behaved well and as expected, given the intensity of this event.


2013 ◽  
Vol 40 (7) ◽  
pp. 655-662
Author(s):  
George K. Georgoussis

Building structures of low or medium height are usually designed with a pseudostatic approach using a base shear much lower than that predicted from an elastic spectrum. Given this shear force, the objective of this paper is to evaluate the effect of the element strength assignment (as determined by several building codes) on the torsional response of inelastic single-storey eccentric structures and to provide guidelines for minimizing this structural behaviour. It is demonstrated that the expected torque about the centre of mass (CM) may be, with equal probability, positive (counterclockwise) or negative (clockwise). This result means that the torsional strength should also be provided in equal terms in both rotational directions, and therefore the base shear and torque (BST) surface of a given system must be symmetrical (or approximately symmetrical). In stiffness-eccentric systems, appropriate BST surfaces may be obtained when a structural design is based on a pair of design eccentricities in a symmetrical order about CM, and this is shown in representative single-storey building models under characteristic ground motions.


2018 ◽  
Vol 65 ◽  
pp. 08008
Author(s):  
Syed Muhammad Bilal Haider ◽  
Zafarullah Nizamani ◽  
Chun Chieh Yip

The reinforced concrete structures, not designed for seismic conditions, amid the past earthquakes have shown us the significance of assessment of the seismic limit state of the current structures. During seismic vibrations, every structure encountered seismic loads. Seismic vibrations in high rise building structure subjects horizontal and torsional deflections which consequently develop extensive reactions in the buildings. Subsequently, horizontal stiffness can produce firmness in the high rise structures and it resists all the horizontal and torsional movements of the building. Therefore, bracing and shear wall are the mainstream strategies for reinforcing the structures against their poor seismic behaviours. It is seen before that shear wall gives higher horizontal firmness to the structure when coupled with bracing however it will be another finding that in building model, which location is most suitable for shear wall and bracing to get better horizontal stability. In this study, a 15 story residential reinforced concrete building is assessed and analyzed using building code ACI 318-14 for bracing and shear wall placed at several different locations of the building model. The technique used for analysis is Equivalent Static Method by utilizing a design tool, finite element software named ETABS. The significant parameters examined are lateral displacement, base shear, story drift, and overturning moment.


2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 3633-3637

Precast concrete structures are widely used in construction. It consists of prefabricated elements casted in industry and connected to each other to form a homogeneous structure. Connections function is to transfer moments and axial forces. Many engineers assume precast connection as pinned, but in reality, they are semi-rigid connections that transfer forces to other members. Lack of design and detailing of connection leads to improper behaviour of the structure, which then leads to the collapse of the building. Past earthquake studies show that many precast buildings performed poorly, and the main reasons were connections. This paper mainly focuses on understanding the seismic behaviour of mid-rise i.e seven-storey precast reinforced concrete buildings with various beam-column joints i.e rigid, semi-rigid, pinned and column-base supports i.e, fixed and hinged supports. Building is modelled and analyzed using ETABS v17 software. Rotational stiffness of precast billet connection is adopted for modelling of semi-rigid beam-column connections. Response spectrum and modal analysis are carried out. Results of displacements, storey drift, storey shear, storey stiffness, base shear, time periods and first mode shapes of models are discussed. It is observed, precast reinforced concrete building models with semi rigid connection performs better than building models with pinned connections and building models with fixed supports reduces the structural response to a great extent.


2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Vimala ◽  
A. Vimala

Urbanization and population explosion in the present times has led to increase in demand for land and residencies but the availability of land is scare i.e reason a trend has evolved for construction of high rise structures in high rise structures major emphasis given to lateral load resisting systems. As diagrid structural system is lighter, stiffer and is effective in resisting the lateral loads, the present investigation carried out to study the performance diagrid on high rise structures varying aspect ratio. The study is carried out to observe the performance of diagrid structures ranging from 30 to 90 storeys. Diagrid structures are modelled with 3 storey module and performance of 7 models with different storeys i.e 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90 (aspect ratio 3.67-10.86) and with fixed plan area. As a part 1 investigation to optimise the diagrid angle a 30 storey Diagrid structure performance is studied with 4 different diagrid angles one storey module angle 35°45’, Two storey module angle 55°13’, Three storey module 65°9’, Four storey module 70°51’. The optimized diagrid angle is used for different aspect ratio high rise structures to investigate the performance in terms of Storey displacement, Storey drift ratio, base shear and time period. For all the models plan area is fixed. Second part of investigation was a numerical study carried out by utilizing identified optimum angle of diagrid is applied on high rise buildings with aspect ratios 3.67, 4.86, 6.06, 7.26, 8.46, 9.67, 10.86 (Aspect ratio is the total height of the building to the width of the building). Behaviour of the Diagrid buildings due to change in aspect ratio is analysed based on parameters such as Storey displacements, Storey drift ratio, Base shear, Time period. As a part of investigation parameters such as Storey displacements and storey drift ratio were evaluated if they were within the limits as per IS code provisions. Percentage increase in storey displacements, maximum storey drift ratio,


2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Arash Karimipour ◽  
Mansour Ghalehnovi ◽  
Mahmoud Edalati ◽  
Mehdi Barani

Due to the shortage of land in cities and population growth, the significance of high rise buildings has risen. Controlling lateral displacement of structures under different loading such as an earthquake is an important issue for designers. One of the best systems is the diagrid method which is built with diagonal elements with no columns for manufacturing tall buildings. In this study, the effect of the distribution of the tuned mass damper (TMD) on the structural responses of diagrid tall buildings was investigated using a new dynamic method. So, a diagrid structural systems with variable height with TMDs was solved as an example of structure. The reason for the selection of the diagrid system was the formation of a stiffness matrix for the diagonal and angular elements. Therefore, the effect of TMDs distribution on the story drift, base shear and structural behaviour were studied. The obtained outcomes showed that the TMDs distribution does not significantly affect on improving the behaviour of the diagrid structural system during an earthquake. Furthermore, the new dynamic scheme represented in this study has good performance for analyzing different systems. 


2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yukihiro Omika ◽  
Norihide Koshika ◽  
Yukimasa Yamamoto ◽  
Kenichi Kawano ◽  
Kan Shimizu

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