Description of building (Concrete design handbook, 11.4) The six-story reinforced concrete building shown in fig-11.

1 is located in Vancouver and is to be designed is to be designed as a ductile moment resisting frame structure. The six-story reinforced concrete office building has 7-6 m bays in the N-S direction and 3 bays in the EW direction which consist of 2-9 m office bays and a central 6 m corridor bay. The interior columns are all 500 x 500 mm while the exterior columns are 450 x 450 mm. The one-way slab floor system consists of a slab 110 mm thick spanning in the E-W direction supported by beams in the N-S direction. The secondary beams supporting the slab are 300 mm wide x 350 mm deep (from top of slab to bottom of beam). The beams of both the N-S and E-W frames are 400 mm wide x 600 mm deep for the first three storeys and 400 x 550 mm for the top three storeys Material properties Concrete: normal density concrete with fc = 30 MPa Reinforcement: fy = 400 MPa

Floor Live load : 2.4 kN/m2 Snow Load: 2.2 kN/m2

Dead loads Self-weight of reinforced concrete members calculated as 24 kN/m2 1.0 kN/m2 partition loading on all floor 0.5 kN/m2 mechanical services loading on all floors