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The
building is a hospital with provision for emergency and surgery and the condition that no shear
wall is allowed due to architectural purposes. The height of each floor 4m and basement height
is 3m (2 Nos). Each floor having total dead load 8 KN/m 2 and live load 4 KN/m 2 Now, calculate
the total base shear (V) as per BNBC 2020. See the result of bore hole of soil test
DEPTH(m) SPT
1.5 4
3 6
4.5 8
6 6
7.5 5
9 5
10.5 8
12 12
13.5 13
15 15
16.5 16
18 21
19.5 13
21 11
22.5 24
24 25
25.5 24
27 27
28.5 25
30 20
Calculate base shear according to ASCE 7-05 when i) TL=4 and ii) TL=0.8