ABSTRACT

Nowadays, in the urban areas the space required for the construction of buildings is limited. To
fulfill this demand, tall buildings becoming more popular. In these modern days, most of the
structures are involved with architectural importance and it is highly impossible to plan with
regular shapes. These irregularities are responsible for structural collapse of buildings under the
action of dynamic loads like wind or earthquake, stability of these irregular structures is
important topic of present study. Stability weakness arises due to discontinuity in mass, stiffness
and geometry of structure. A vertical irregularity is one of the major reasons of damage or
failures of structures during past earthquakes.
The structures having these discontinuities are termed as Irregular structures. Irregular structures
are common features in present tall RC buildings. The effect of vertically irregularities in the
seismic performance of structures becomes really important. Earthquakes are known as one of
the most unpredictable and devastating of all natural disasters, studies need to be carried out on
behavior and design of structures to resist earthquake forces, but however it is impossible to
analyse exactly the severity of earthquake at any particular location. Similar to seismic load wind
load is also critical lateral load which increases with increase in height of building.

In this work, the performances of tall RC structure with irregularities are studied. The modeling
and analysis of the structures is carried out using the software ETABS and dynamic analysis is
carried out using response spectrum method. The parameters considered for study are storey
displacement, drift, storey stiffness and time period.

Keywords: Vertical irregularities, Response spectrum

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MODEL SPECIFICATIONS
An RCC building of 35mX35m is considered having a special moment resisting frame of 30
storeys.
Table 5.1. Details of the Model
Sl. No

Description
Storey height

Details
Base- 4.0m
Typical- 3m

Materials

Steel, Concrete

Codes

IS 456:2000, ,
IS 875-1987 (Part II) - Live Loads/ Design Loads,
IS 875 (Part III): 1987 - For Wind Loads
IS 1893 (Part 1): 2002 For Earthquake Designing

Table 5.2. Column, Beam and Slab Sizes

Sl. No

Description

Floor

Details

Column size

Base to 10th floors

500X500mm

10th to 20th floors

400X400mm

20th to 30th floors

300X300mm

Base to 10th floors

300X400mm

10th to 20th floors

250X300mm

20th to 30th floors

200X300mm

All floors

125mm

Beam Size

Slab thickness

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5.2.1 Load Details

Table 5.3 Live Load details
SL. No.

Type of Loads

Floor

Details

Live Load

Typical floor

3 kN/m

Terrace Floor

1.2 kN/m

Typical floor

1.1 kN/m

Terrace Floor

0.8 kN/m

Super Dead Load (SDL)

5.2.1.1 Earthquake & Wind Load Details

Table 5.4. Earthquake & Wind Load Details

Earthquake Load

Wind Load

Zone factor (Zone V)

0.36

Wind Speed

50 m/sec

Importance factor

Terrain category

Response reduction

Structural classes

Soil type

III

Risk co-efficient

K1=1

Topography

K3=1

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Plan of model

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