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Earthquake Analysis of High Raised RC Framed
Building by Response Spectrum Method
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Jetta Sravani and 2Varra Aruna Reddy,
1,2
Assistant Professor, St.Marry’s Integrated Campus, Hyderabad, Telangana State, India

Abstract: Many high-rise buildings are designed with basement. shear force in the basement is carefully investigated in this study.
In general, we assume that a building is fixed at the ground level. And an efficient method is proposed for the analysis of high-rise
Buildings between 75 feet and 491 feet (23 m to 150 m) high are buildings considering the effects of basement by using partial or
considered high-rises. Buildings taller than 492 feet (150 m) are full rigid diaphragm and matrix condensation procedure.
classified as skyscrapers. However, the basement may introduce
Earthquake has always been a threat to human
flexibility to the structure resulting in larger lateral displacements
civilization from the day of its existence, devastating human
and longer vibration periods. The seismic loads applied to a
lives, property and man-made structures. The very recent
building structure will affect the member forces in the basement.
earthquake that we faced in our neighboring country Indian has
Thus, it is recommended to include the basement in the analysis
again shown nature’s fury, causing such a massive destruction to
of high-rise building (G+15) structures.
the country and its people. It is such an unpredictable calamity
The effect of the basement is investigated based on the that it is very necessary for survival to ensure the strength of the
seismic response of high-rise buildings and an efficient analysis structures against seismic forces. Therefore there is continuous
method to account for the effect of the basement was proposed in research work going on around the globe, revolving around
this study. When a 15-story building structure was subjected to development of new and better techniques that can be
static lateral loads, the displacements of the roof were 13.8cm and incorporated in structures for better seismic performance.
12.7cm for the cases with and without the basement. And the Obviously, buildings designed with special techniques to resist
period of the building with the basement was about 10% longer damages during seismic activity have much higher cost of
than that of the building without the basement. Therefore, it is construction than normal buildings, but for safety against failures
recommended to use the proposed method to get more accurate under seismic forces it is a prerequisite.
results in the analysis of building structures with basement.
Key Skills:
 IS1893-2002(Part-1)
 IS456-2000
 ETABS 2015
 Auto Cad 2016
I. INTRODUCTION
Recently, most of the high-rise buildings may have basement
used as parking lots or shopping malls etc. In general, it is
commonly assumed that the building is fixed at the ground level
in the analysis and the basement is not included in the analytical
model. Using this assumption, the lateral stiffness of the structure
may be overestimated since the flexibility introduced by the
basement is ignored. Therefore, the natural periods may be
shortened and the dynamic response of a building structure may
be misestimated due to this inaccurate prediction of the lateral
stiffness.
Figure 1: RC building with exterior bracing system as lateral
In general, only gravity loads are considered in stiffener (1)
designing the basement structure without the effect of lateral
forces as earthquake loads applied to the super structure such. But
the seismic loads applied to the super structure will affect the
member forces in the basement structure. The previous researches
on buildings with basement were only focused on the dynamic
behavior of a structure using a simplified model and could not
cover the effect of seismic loads on basement structural members.
The effect of the basement on the seismic response of high-rise
buildings and the effect of the seismic loads on the member force
of the basement were investigated in this study. Especially in
seismic analysis of high-rise building structures with basement, it Figure 2: Connection of steel brace to concrete member [2]
is of practical importance to obtain an accurate estimation of the Shear walls are structural system consisting of braced
high shear force acting on the basement structure. Therefore the panels, also known as Shear Panels. Concrete Shear walls are
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widespread in many earthquake-prone countries like Canada,
Turkey, Romania, Colombia, and Russia. It has been in practice
since 1960’s, used in buildings ranging from medium- to high-
rise structures. Shear walls should always be placed
symmetrically in the structure and on each floor, including the
basement. Reinforced concrete Shear walls transfer seismic forces
to foundation and provide strength and stiffness.
Figure 3: Building showing a Shear Wall [3]
The design for only a fraction of the elastic level of
seismic forces is possible, only if the building can stably
withstand large displacement demand through structural damage
without collapse and undue loss of strength. This property is
called ductility (Figure 1.6). It is relatively simple to design
structures to possess certain lateral strength and initial stiffness by
appropriately proportioning the size and material of the members.
But, achieving sufficient ductility is more involved and requires
extensive laboratory tests on full-scale specimen to identify
preferable methods of detailing.
In summary, the loading imposed by earthquake shaking
under the building is of displacement-type and that by wind and
all other hazards is of force-type. Earthquake shaking requires
buildings to be capable of resisting certain relative displacement
within it due to the imposed displacement at its base, while wind
and other hazards require buildings to resist certain level of force
applied on it (Figure 1.7a). While it is possible to estimate with
precision the maximum force that can be imposed on a building,
the maximum displacement imposed under the building is not as
precisely known. For the same maximum displacement to be
sustained by a building (Figure 1.7b), wind design requires only
elastic behaviour in the entire range of displacement, but in
earthquake design there are two options, namely design the
building to remain elastic or to undergo inelastic behaviour. The
latter option is adopted in normal buildings, and the former in
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special buildings, like critical buildings of nuclear power plants.
A. The Four Virtues Of Earthquake Resistant Buildings
For a building to perform satisfactorily during earthquakes, it
must meet the philosophy of earthquake-resistant design
discussed in Section 1.2.
1. Characteristics of Buildings
There are four aspects of buildings that architects and
design engineers work with to create the earthquake-resistant
design of a building, namely seismic structural configuration,
lateral stiffness, lateral strength and ductility, in addition to other
aspects like form, aesthetics, functionality and comfort of
building. Lateral stiffness, lateral strength and ductility of
buildings can be ensured by strictly following most seismic
design codes. But, good seismic structural configuration can be
ensured by following coherent architectural features that result in
good structural behaviour.
(a) Seismic Structural Configuration
Seismic structural configuration entails three main
aspects, namely (a) geometry, shape and size of the building, (b)
location and size of structural elements, and (c) location and size
of significant non-structural elements (Figure 1.8). Influence of
the geometry of a building on its earthquake performance is best
understood from the basic geometries of convex and concave
lenses from school-day physics class (Figure 1.9). The line
joining any two points within area of the convex lens lies
completely within the lens. But, the same is not true for the
concave lens; a part of the line may lie outside the area of the
concave lens. Structures with convex geometries are preferred to
those with concave geometries, as the former demonstrate
superior earthquake performance. In the context of buildings,
convex shaped buildings have direct load paths for transferring
earthquake shaking induced inertia forces to their bases for any
direction of ground shaking, while concave buildings necessitate
bending of load paths for shaking of the ground along certain
directions that result in stress concentrations at all points where
the load paths bend.
Objectives
The objectives of present work are as follows:
1. To analyze the building with different ground motions,
namely, IS code compatible ground motion, Imperial
Valley ground motion and San Francisco ground motion.
2. To perform dynamic analysis of the building using
response spectrum method.
3. To model building with different lateral stiffness systems
and study the change in response of the building
4. To compare and get a better and efficient lateral stiffness
system
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Scope motion as per IS 1893:2002 (Part-I), Imperial Valley and San
Francisco.
1. This study concerns analysis of reinforced concrete
moment resisting open frame, open frame with braces and B. Methodology Adopted
open frame with shear walls only, using Staad Pro
As discussed in the scope of the work, the entire work is divided
program. The effect of brick infill is ignored.
into three parts:
2. This study involves a theoretical 12 storey building with
normal floor loading and no infill walls.  Analysis of bare frame in all the above three mentioned
3. The comparison of fundamental period, base shear, inter- ground motions
storey drift and top-storey deflection is done by using  Analysis of the braced frames.
Response Spectrum analysis, which is a linear elastic  Analysis of the frame with shear wall
analysis
For analysis a 12 stories high building is modeled in Staad Pro as
II. LITERATURE REVIEW a space frame. The building is does not represent any real existing
Chandurkar, Pajgade (2013) evaluated the response of building. The building is unsymmetrical with the span more along
a 10 storey building with seismic shear wall using ETAB v 9.5. Z direction than along X direction. The building rises up to 42m
Main focus was to compare the change in response by changing along Y direction and spans 15m along X direction and 20 m
the location of shear wall in the multi-storey building. Four along Z direction .The building is analyzed by Response
models were studied- one being a bare frame structural system Spectrum Analysis, which is a linear dynamic analysis. Dynamic
and rest three were of dual type structural system. The results Analysis is adopted since it gives better results than static
were excellent for shear wall in short span at corners. Larger analysis. The specifications of the frame are given in Table 1. and
dimension of shear wall was found to be ineffective in 10 or the plan and the model of the building is shown in Fig. 4 and
below 10 stories. Shear wall is an effective and economical Figure 5: Respectively. In the entire course work X and Z are
option for high-rise structures. It was observed that changing taken as the horizontal axes and
positions of shear wall was found to attract forces, hence proper
positioning of shear wall is vital. Major amount of horizontal
forces were taken by shear wall when the dimension is large. It
was also observed that shear walls at substantial locations
reduced displacements due to earthquake.
Viswanath K.G (2010) investigated the seismic
performance of reinforced concrete buildings using concentric
steel bracing. Analysis of a four, eight, twelve and sixteen storied
building in seismic zone IV was done using Staad Pro software,
as per IS 1893: 2002 (Part-I). The bracing was provided for
peripheral columns, and the effectiveness of steel bracing
distribution along the height of the building, on the seismic
performance of the building was studied. It was found that lateral
displacements of the buildings reduced after using X-type
bracings. Steel bracings were found to reduce flexure and shear
demand on the beams and columns and transfer lateral load by
axial load mechanism. Building frames with X- type bracing were
found to have minimum bending as compared to other types of
bracing. Steel bracing system was found to be a better alternative
for seismic retrofitting as they do not increase the total weight of
the building significantly.
III. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
To gather various types of work on seismic analysis of
high-rise structures and increasing lateral stiffness of the system
various papers, thesis and research articles were studied
thoroughly and referred. The idea behind doing literature review
was to collect data and have understanding on different methods
and approaches that can be used, to clear understand the software
requirement of the project. Literature review was done to have
thorough guidelines during the entire project work.
A. Data Collection
Various Indian standard codes were collected from the
department of civil engineering NIT Rourkela. The earthquake
data’s were obtained from the site Peer.berkeley.edu. The
earthquakes considered in this work are time history of ground
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Infill walls are modelled as equivalent diagonal strut
elements. The last part of the chapter deals with the
computational model of the equivalent strut including modelling
nonlinearity.
B. Building Description
An existing OGS framed building located at Guwahati,
India (Seismic Zone -V) is selected for the present study. The
building is fairly symmetric in plan and in elevation.
 No. of Floors of Building – G+15
 Slab Thickness – 150 m
 Each Floor Height – 3.5 m
 Total Height of the Building – 56 m
 External Wall Thick – 230 mm
 Internal Thickness – 120 mm
 For Live Load – 3.5 kN/m
 Column Sizes – 400 x 400 mm
 Beam Sizes – 300 x 450 mm
The cross sections of the structural members (columns
300 mm×600 mm and beams 300 x 450 mm) are equal in all
frames and all stories. Storey masses to 295 and 237 tonnes in the
bottom storyes and at the roof level, respectively. The design base
shear was equal to 0.15 times the total weight.

Figure 6: Open Ground Storey Buildings in Seismic Areas – (a)

A typical housing typology in Practice in the urban areas of India Plan View of G+15 Building
(e.g., Chandigarh (Punjab, India)), and (b) RC Frame buildings C. For Calculation of Dead Load
with open ground storeys collapsed (left unit one and right unit
two) in Gandhidham (Gujarat, India) during the 2001 Bhuj Self- weight- 1 kn/Sq.m
(India) Earthquake Floor load -2 kN/Sq.m

III. ANALYSIS & STRUCTURAL MODELLING External wall Thickness – 230mm

A. Overview For Density of Brick Wall = 20 kN/ m2

= 20 x 0.23 x 3
It is very important to develop a computational model on = 13.8 kN/m3
which linear / non-linear, static/ dynamic analysis is performed.
The first part of this chapter presents a summary of various Internal wall Thickness – 120mm
parameters defining the computational models, the basic For Density of Brick Wall = 20 kN/ m2
assumptions and the geometry of the selected building considered = 20 x 0.12 x 3
for this study. = 7.2 kN/m3
Accurate modelling of the nonlinear properties of For Considering of Floor Load -1.8 kN/m2
various structural elements is very important in nonlinear
analysis. In the present study, frame elements were modelled with Live Load –3 kN/ m
inelastic flexural hinges using point plastic model. A detailed
description on the nonlinear modelling of RC frames is presented
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Dead Load on G+15 Building
Scope
1.1 This code (Part I) covers unit weight/mass of nationals, and
parts or components In a building that apply to the determination
of dead loads In the deslln of buildmgs. 1.1. J The unit
weight/mass of maternal that arc likely to be stored in a building
are also specified for the purpose of load calculations along with
angles of maternal canon as appropriate
Figure 7: Tabulated Plot Coordinates
Weak Storey
It is one in which the storey lateral strength is less than 80 percent
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.
Seismic Weight
Seismic Weight of Floors
The seismic weight of each floor is its full dead load plus
appropriate amount of imposed load, as specified in 7.3.1 and
7.3.2. While computing the seismic weight of each floor, the
weight of columns and walls in any storey shall be equally
distributed to the floors above and below the storey.
Seismic Weight of Building
The seismic weight of the whole building is the sum of the
seismic weights of all the floors. Any weight supported in
between storeys shall be distributed to the floors above and below
in inverse proportion to its distance from the floors.
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D. Design Practice
The generation of acceleration response spectrum and a change of
frame of reference of deformation together have facilitated
converting the moving base problem of earthquake shaking of
buildings into a fixed base problem (Figure 1.13). The latter is
easy to handle, since design practice is conversant with analysis
and design of structures subjected to forces, and not subjected to
displacements or accelerations. Therefore, the acceleration
response spectrum allows quick, back-of the- envelope type
calculations by senior engineers to check the ball park values of
force generated in a building during earthquake shaking.
IV. DESIGN OF G+15 BUILDING
A. Structural Wall-Frame Systems
Earthquake resistant buildings should possess, at least a
minimum lateral stiffness, so that they do no swing too much
during small levels of shaking. Moment frame buildings may not
be able to offer this always. When lateral displacement is large in
a building with moment frames only, structural walls, often
commonly called shear walls, can be introduced to help reduce
overall displacement of buildings, because these vertical plate-
like structural elements have large in-plane stiffness and strength.
Therefore, the structural system of the building consists of
moment frames with specific bays in each direction having
structural walls (Figure 3.29b). Structural walls resist lateral
forces through combined axial-flexure-shear action. Also,
structural walls help reduce shear and moment demands on beams
and columns in the moment frames of the building, when
provided along with moment frames as lateral load resisting
system. Structural walls should be provided throughout the height
of buildings for best earthquake performance. Also, walls offer
best performance when rested on hard soil strata.
Consider the five-storey building, but with structural
walls as shown in Figure 3.42. The first case differs from the rest
in the position of the structural walls in both direction – the walls
are at the building periphery in the first case, while they are
placed near the centre in the others. The last two cases represent
buildings with twice wall area in the Y-direction; in the last case,
two short (one-bay) walls are combined to form one long (two-
bay) wall. Structural walls, owing to their large lateral stiffness,
draw most of the lateral force and thereby help reduce demands
on columns and beams. This is seen in Figure 3.43; bending
moment, shear force and axial force demands on beams and
columns are significantly reduced by introduction of structural
walls (at periphery). But, it is not sufficient to provide structural
walls in buildings; their location in a building governs the overall
response of the building. Details are taken.
B. Beam Design
A reinforced concrete beam should be able to resist
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tensile, compressive and shear stress induced in it by loads on the [7] IS 13920-1993 for Ductile Detailing Reinforced Concrete
beam. Structures subject to seismic forces, Bureau of Indian
Standards, New Delhi.
There are three types of reinforced concrete beams
1.)Single reinforced beams
2.)Double reinforced concrete
3.)Flanged beams
SUMMARY & CONCLUSIONS
A. Summary
The obtained results of static and dynamic analysis in
OMRF & SMRF are compared for different columns under axial,
torsion, bending moment and displacement forces. The results in
graph-1 shows that there is equal values obtained of axial forces
in static and dynamic analysis of OMRF structure. The results in
graph-2 shows that the values are obtained for torsion in static
analysis are negative and dynamic analysis values are positive.
The results in graph-3 here we can observe that the values for
bending moment at dynamic analysis values are high in initially
for other columns it decreased gradually as compared to that of
static analysis. The results in graph-4 we can observe that the
values for displacement in static analysis of OMRF values are
more compared to that of dynamic analysis values of same
columns. The results in graph-5 shows that the values obtained of
axial forces in dynamic analysis of SMRF structure values are
high compare to static analysis.

The results in graph-6 shows that the values are obtained

for torsion in static analysis are negative and dynamic analysis
values are positive with more difference. In the results graph-7,
we can observe that the values for bending moment at dynamic
analysis values are more as compared to that of static analysis
SMRF structure. In the results graph-8, we can observe that the
values for displacement in dynamic analysis of SMRF values are
gradually increased compared to that of static analysis values of
same columns. The static and dynamic analysis of OMRF &
SMRF values is observed. Finally it can conclude that the results
of static analysis in OMRF & SMRF values are low when
comparing to that of dynamic analysis in OMRF & SMRF values.
Hence the performance of dynamic analysis SMRF structure is
quiet good in resisting the earthquake forces compared to that of
the static analysis OMRF & SMRF.
References
[1] Mohit Sharma, Dr. SavitaMaru. IOSR Journal of
Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Volume 11, Issue 1.
Ver. II (Jan-2014), PP 37-42.
[2] IS: 1893-2002 (part-1) “criteria for earthquake resistant
design of structures” fifth revision, Bureau of Indian
Standards, New Delhi.
[3] IS: 456-2000 (Indian Standard Plain Reinforced Concrete
Code of Practice) – Fourth Revision.
[4] IS: 875-1987 (part-1) for Dead Loads, code of practice of
Design loads (other than earthquake) for buildings and
structures.
[5] IS: 875-1987 (part-2) for Live Loads or Imposed Loads,
code of practice of Design loads (other than earthquake)
for buildings and structures.
[6] IS: 875-1987 (part-3) for Wind Loads, code of practice of
Design loads (other than earthquake) for buildings and
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