SEISMIC PERFORMANCE OF RC FRAME

STRUCTURES WITH SIM INFILL AND URM INFILL

PANEL
INTRODUCTION:
 Buildings with mud brick wall RC frames are
the most common type of structures used
for multistory constructions in all over the
world. Masonry is one of the most popular
and economical construction materials.
 In recent years most of the countries started
using different types of bricks as infill
material especially in seismically active
regions one of that is semi-interlocked
masonry (SIM) see fig 1.This semi- Fig 1: Double strut nonlinear cyclic model Fig 4:Comparison of Response Reduction Factor for
Interlocking brick system in building works Different frames
is a fast and cost effective construction
system and provides good solution in ANALYTICAL MODELING:
construction. Hence there is a need to  Literature provides different approaches in
determine the effectiveness of using macro modeling such as equivalent diagonal
interlocking brick in construction system. single strut or triple strut model.
 In this study double strut nonlinear cyclic
OBJECTIVES:
model is used to represent the brick masonry
 It is very important to understand the
infill in seismostruct software.
behavior of masonry infill frame structures
 Pushover analysis is performed on 1) Bare
under earthquake loads. This study presents
frame 2) Partial infilled frames 3) full infilled
an analytical work performed on reinforced
frames.
concrete (RC) frames with different types of Fig 2: Pushover curves of different frames
masonry infill walls, namely standard bricks
and semi-interlocked bricks.
CONCLUSIONS:
PROBLEM STATEMENT:  Ductility is higher in SIM infilled frame as
 For this study, a 5-storey with 5 bays two compared to URM infilled frame.
dimensional frame (Each span 4 m) and  R Factor is maximum in SIM infilled frame as
floor height 3.0m, regular in plan is compared to URM infillled frame
considered. This frame is considered to be  SIM panel acts as a energy dissipation device
situated in seismic zone ‘v’ and modeled in structure because it dissipates more energy
using seismostruct software. through relative shear sliding mechanism
 SIM infilled frame gives fast & economic
construction as compared to URM infilled
frame.
Fig 3:Comparison of Ductility for Different frames

Mangeshkumar Shendkar1 and Ramancharla Pradeep Kumar2

Earthquake Engineering Research Centre