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Irregularity in Building

This document discusses irregularities in building structures. It defines regular and irregular buildings based on their symmetry and continuity. There are two main types of irregularities: plan irregularity and vertical irregularity. Vertical irregularity includes issues like soft stories, mass irregularities, vertical geometry issues, and discontinuities. Plan irregularity includes torsion, reentrant corners, diaphragm discontinuities, offsets, and non-parallel systems. Irregularities can cause issues like increased lateral sway, story drift, base shear, and overturning moments. Rectangular buildings particularly experience higher displacements, drifts, and torsion compared to other shapes. T-shaped buildings experience the highest overturning moments.

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Irregularity in Building

This document discusses irregularities in building structures. It defines regular and irregular buildings based on their symmetry and continuity. There are two main types of irregularities: plan irregularity and vertical irregularity. Vertical irregularity includes issues like soft stories, mass irregularities, vertical geometry issues, and discontinuities. Plan irregularity includes torsion, reentrant corners, diaphragm discontinuities, offsets, and non-parallel systems. Irregularities can cause issues like increased lateral sway, story drift, base shear, and overturning moments. Rectangular buildings particularly experience higher displacements, drifts, and torsion compared to other shapes. T-shaped buildings experience the highest overturning moments.

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IRREGULARITY IN BUILDING

A building is said to be a regular when the building


configurations are almost symmetrical about the axis and

it is said to be the irregular when it lacks symmetry and


discontinuity in geometry, mass or load resisting elements

1. PLAN IRREGULATIRY:
The irregular distribution of the mass, strength and
stiffness on the structure towards plan is called plan
irregularity.

2. VERTICAL IRREGULARITY:
The irregular distribution of the mass, strength and
stiffness on the structure towards the height is called plan
irregularity.
TYPES OF VERTICAL IRREGULARITY

• Vertical stiffness
• Mass irregularity
• Vertical Geometry irregularity
• In-Plan Discontinuity in Vertical Lateral Force-Resisting Element.
• Discontinuity in Capacity (Weak Storey):

TYPES OF PLAN IRREGULARITY

• Torsion Irregularity
• Re-entrant Corners
• Diaphragm Discontinuity
• Out of plane offsets
• Non- parallel system
Vertical Stiffness (Soft Storey)

• A soft storey is one in which the lateral stiffness is less than


70% of that in the storey above or less than 80% of the
average lateral stiffness of the three storey above.
Mass Irregularity

• Mass irregularity shall be considered to exist where the


effective mass of any storey is more than 150% of the
effective mass of an adjacent storey
Vertical Geometry irregularity
• Geometric irregularity exists, when the horizontal dimension
of the lateral force resisting system in any storey is more than
130% of that in an adjacent storey.
In-Plan Discontinuity in Vertical Lateral Force-Resisting Element

• An in-plane offset of the lateral load resisting elements


greater than the length those elements.
Discontinuity in Capacity (Weak Storey)
A weak storey is one in which the average storey lateral
strength is less than 80% of that in the storey above, the
storey lateral strength is the total strength of all seismic force
resisting elements sharing the storey shear in the considered
direction.
PLAN IRREGULARITY
Torsion Irregularity
• Torsional irregularity to be considered to exist when the
maximum storey drift, computed with design eccentricity, at
one end of the structures transverse to an axis is more than
1.2 times the average of the storey drifts at the two ends of
the structure.
Re-entrant Corners

• Plan configurations of a structure and its lateral force resisting


system contain reentrant corners, where both projections of
the structure beyond a reentrant corner are greater than 15%
of the plan dimension of the structure in the given direction.
Diaphragm Discontinuity
• Diaphragms with abrupt discontinuities or variations in
stiffness, including those having cut-out or open areas greater
than 50 percent of the gross enclosed diaphragm area, or
changes in effective diaphragm stiffness of more than 50
percent from one storey to the next.
Out of Plane Offsets

• Discontinuities in a lateral force resistance


path, such as out-of-plane offsets of vertical
elements
Non- Parallel System
• The vertical elements resisting the lateral force are not
parallel to or symmetric about the major orthogonal axes or
the lateral force resisting elements.
Effects of irregularity in configuration
Lateral Sway
• It is seen from the figures that sway in the X-direction for all types of
buildings are seemed to be similar. However, Rectangular shape building
undergoes a large sway in the Y-direction and others undergo almost
similar level sway. From the sway point of view, it can be said that
rectangular shape building has to undergo most effect perpendicular to its
narrow side
Storey Drift

• Storey drift is defined as the relative sway of frame to the


adjacent floor
• rectangular building undergo a huge large storey drift in Y-
direction than any other shape building in any direction.
Base shear
• Base shear is the force which acts in the base of any structure to overturn
the building when earthquake load acts in a structure.
• It is seen from the figure that, base shear varies by a large value due to the
change of shape of building. U-shaped building
Time period

• Time period of any building expresses that how long the


building will take to collapse whiles the ground acceleration
exceeds its tolerable limit .
• It is seen that time period recommendation is 40% higher
than the actual one found in ETABS analysis irrespective the
shape of Building.
Overturning moment

• Overturning is a phenomenon that occurs tilting of the struc-


ture when lateral load is imposed in the building.
• maximum overturning moment will pro-duce if the shape of
building is like a T followed by U, L, IL, R and S.
following conclusions can be made from this study:

. Lateral displacement of all shaped structure is found very close to each other in each
direction. However, 74.5% increased lateral displacement is found in rec-tangular
shaped building in Y-direction;

Findings for storey drift is similar as in the case of lat-eral displacement because drift
is totally depends on lateral displacement. A 74.5% higher value of drift is computed
for rectangular building in Y-direction;

-Base shear varies by a large value due to the change of shape of building. U-shaped
building undergo most base shear followed by TSB, LSB, RSB and SSB. the computed
base shear values are 159, 85,36, 162.12, 353.54, 478.72 in Kips and 277.73 for RSB,
SSB, ILSB, TSB, USB and LSB respectively.
-It is seen that time period recommendation in BNBC is 40% higher than the actual one
found in ETABS analysis irrespective the shape of Building.

It has found from the analysis that Rectangular shape building is vulnerable to
torsional irregularity (TIR=1.39). Other shapes are found within the pre-scribed value
by BNBC code.
Maximum overturning moment is produced for T-shaped building followed by U, L, IL,
R and S.

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