Assessment of location & optimum percentage of shear wall for typical plans

  Mr. Amey Dhondopant Kulkarni

In the seismic design of buildings, reinforced concrete structural walls, or shear walls, act as major earthquake resisting members. Structural walls provide an efficient bracing system and offer great potential for lateral load resistance. The properties of these seismic shear walls dominate the response of the buildings, and therefore, it is important to evaluate the seismic response of the walls appropriately. In this paper, RCC buildings of different heights and different typical plan shapes but same plan area placed in Solapur subjected to earthquake loading in zone-III are considered. An earthquake load is calculated by seismic coefficient method using IS 1893 (PART–I):2002& Detailed as per IS 13920:1993. These analyses were performed using ETABS 2013. A study has been carried out to determine the effect of RC shear wall on earthquake resistance of a multistoried building by changing shear wall location. Different cases of shear wall positions for buildings of different heights and different plans have been analyzed. Also optimum percentage of shear wall is determined with respect to perimeter of the buildings. The results are compared with help of dimensionless charts.

Keywords- Shear Wall, Seismic analysis, Rectangular shaped building, C Shaped Building, Top Storey Displacements, Base Shear

Unique Identification Number - IJEDR1603158
Page Number(s) - 985-989
Pubished in - Volume 4 | Issue 3 | September 2016
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Publisher - IJEDR (ISSN - 2321-9939)

  Mr. Amey Dhondopant Kulkarni,   "Assessment of location & optimum percentage of shear wall for typical plans", International Journal of Engineering Development and Research (IJEDR), ISSN:2321-9939, Volume.4, Issue 3, pp.985-989, September 2016, Available at :http://www.ijedr.org/papers/IJEDR1603158.pdf