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Technical and Logical Reasoning For Analysis

This document discusses structural irregularities in buildings that can cause increased damage during earthquakes. It analyzes different types of vertically irregular structures, including stiffness, mass, and geometric irregularities, using response spectrum analysis and modeling in STAAD.pro software. Key parameters analyzed include lateral displacements, story drift, base shear, and story displacements. The document also discusses provisions in the Indian building code for regular and irregular building configurations, and how irregularities like soft stories and mass or plan irregularities can lead to failures during seismic events.

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Technical and Logical Reasoning For Analysis

This document discusses structural irregularities in buildings that can cause increased damage during earthquakes. It analyzes different types of vertically irregular structures, including stiffness, mass, and geometric irregularities, using response spectrum analysis and modeling in STAAD.pro software. Key parameters analyzed include lateral displacements, story drift, base shear, and story displacements. The document also discusses provisions in the Indian building code for regular and irregular building configurations, and how irregularities like soft stories and mass or plan irregularities can lead to failures during seismic events.

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TECHNICAL AND LOGICAL REASONING FOR ANALYSIS :

Structural irregularities are one of the major causes of damage amplification under seismic
action. Past earthquakes, indeed, have shown that buildings with irregular configuration or
asymmetrical distribution of structural properties are subjected to an increase in seismic demand
causing greater damages. Hence this report aims to study and understand the critical behaviour of
regular and vertically irregular structures subject to seismic excitation. Response spectrum
analysis and ductility designing has been carried out using IS 13920. Analysis and building
configurations are based on IS 1893 :2002
This report includes the modelling of irregular building, stiffness irregular building and
geometric irregular building , stiffness irregular building and mass irregular building. Floor
height of each structure is 3.5m with G+15,G+20,G+25 storeys. The main aim of this work is to
make a comparative study of the structure by considering a model in irregular type. The
structures are located in zone III. Various models of the structures have been created using
staad.pro software. The most suitable plan with column and wall location is worked out. Various
seismic parameters like lateral displacements, storey drift, base shear, storey displacements has
been obtained.
Earthquake resistant design of reinforced concrete buildings is a continuing area of research
since the earthquake engineering has started not only in india but in other developed countries
also. The buildings still damage due to some one or other reason during earthquakes(1). In spite
of all the weaknesses in the structure, either code imperfections or error in analysis and design,
the structural configuration system has played a vital role in catastrophe. The IS: 1893 (Part
1):2002 has recommended building configuration system in section 7 for the better performance
of the RC building during earthquake. The building configuration has described as regular or
irregular in terms of size and shape of the building, arrangement of structural elements and
mass(1).A building that lacks symmetry and has discontinuity in geometry, mass or load
resisting elements is called irregular. These irregularities may cause interruptions of force flow
and stress concentrations.During an earthquake, failure of structure starts at points of weakness.
This weakness arises due to discontinuity in mass, stiffness and geometry of structure. The
structures having this discontinuity are termed as Irregular structures. Irregular structures
contribute a large portion of urban infrastructure. Vertical irregularities are one of the major
reasons of failures of structures during earthquakes. For example structures with soft storey were
the most notable structures which collapsed. So, the effect of vertically irregularities in the
seismic performance of structures becomes really important. Height-wise changes in stiffness
and mass render the dynamic characteristics of these buildings different from the regular
building.
Structural design of buildings for Seismic loadings is predominantly concerned with structural
safety during major ground motions. Seismic loading needs an understanding of the structural
performance under huge in-elastic deformations. Many of the structures are evaluated for
earthquake Forces and designed consequently. Several Research have been carried out to analyze
the response of irregular structures. Work that has been already done relating to the seismic
response of vertically irregular building frames. Structures with plan irregularities and those with
elevation irregularities are common in the affected zone. The different kinds of irregularity given
in the IS code 1893 (Part-I). Major failures happened Because of irregularities like soft storey
Failure, Mass Irregularity Failure, Plan Irregularity Failure, Shear Failure. The most detailed and
specific description of the problem is obtaining by non-linear dynamic analysis, made by
applying time-history records which, in the long term, signifies the precise development path.
Yet, due to its complexity and high standards it goes beyond the edges of practical application
and is appropriate only for the research and analysis of structures. There are no commendations
of how one can calculate the fundamental frequency simply by formula, and there are no
provisions which permit the structural detailing by a pseudo-static design against a
corresponding adjacent load, therefore, a rough study which provides basic dynamic data (i.e.
Frequencies, peak values of base resultant forces) of a structures and also an overview of their
response during an earthquake is a useful tool at the preliminary stage of a practical design. Time
history analysis is an analysis of the dynamic response of the structure at each increment of time,
when its base is subjected to a specific ground motion time history. Dynamic analysis may be
performed either by the time history method or by the response spectrum method. However, in
either method, the design base shear (V) shall be compared with a base shear (VB) calculated
using a fundamental period (Ta). Where (Ta) is the approximate fundamental natural period of
vibration, in seconds. The base design shear V is less than VB, and all the response quantities
(for example member forces, storey displacements, storey forces, storey shears and base
reactions) shall be multiplied by (V/VB). Time history method of analysis, when used, shall be
based on an appropriate ground motion and shall be performed using accepted principles of
dynamics IS-1893 .
II. CRITERIA FOR IRREGULARITIES IN INDIAN BUILDING CODES:
The section 7 of IS: 1893 (Part 1): 2002 enlists the irregularities in the building configuration
system. These irregularities are categorized in two types, Vertical irregularities and Horizontal
irregularities. These codes have prescribed minimum values for the structure to have the
irregularities as if the ratio of one of the quantities such as stiffness, mass and strength between
adjacent stories exceeds minimum prescribed values.

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