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International Journal of Civil Engineering and Technology (IJCIET)
Volume 9, Issue 11, November 2018, pp. 588–598, Article ID: IJCIET_09_11_057
Available online at http://www.iaeme.com/ijciet/issues.asp?JType=IJCIET&VType=9&IType=11
ISSN Print: 0976-6308 and ISSN Online: 0976-6316
ABSTRACT
This paper aims at studying the effect of earthquake loading on the constructional
design of a 20-storey reinforced concrete residential building from economical point
of view. This type of loading should be taken into considerations now in Iraq
especially after the earthquake of 7.3 magnitude that occurred in November 2017 near
the city of Halabja by about 31 kilometers. The same reinforced concrete multistory
building was designed twice; once with traditional gravity dead and live loading and
the second with adding earthquake loading in order to discuss the difference from
structural and economical points of view. A commercial package ETABS2018 was
used to analyze this 60-meter-high building. The building was analyzed according to
the American code ASCE7-10, while it was designed according to ACI 318-14. A huge
increase in the steel reinforcement amounts in columns, beams, slabs and shear walls
were recorded due to taking the seismic load into considerations. More specifically,
the reinforcing steel amounts increased by about 327%, 165%, 40% and 91.3% for
columns, beams, slabs and shear walls, respectively. Therefore, cost was raised by
about 328%, 165%, 40% and 91.3% for columns, beams, slabs and shear walls,
respectively. It is worth to mention here that the maximum increase in main
reinforcement of beams was observed on the storey 10. Whereas, in slabs, the
maximum increase that was recorded in main steel reinforcement was happened from
the storey 8 to the building top. In columns, the main reinforcement increase was seen
on the 9th, 10th and 11th storeys. Finally, in shear walls, the main reinforcement
st nd rd
increase was seen in the 1 , 2 and 3 storey due to effect lateral shear forces.
Key words: Seismic analysis, Earthquake, ETABS, Response spectrum analysis,
Economical, Beam, Slab, Column, Shear wall.
Cite this Article: Ali Kifah Kadhum and Khattab Saleem Abdul-Razzaq Effect of
Seismic Load on Reinforced Concrete Multistory Building from Economical Point of
View, International Journal of Civil Engineering and Technology (IJCIET) 9(11),
2018, pp. 588–598.
http://www.iaeme.com/IJCIET/issues.asp?JType=IJCIET&VType=9&IType=11
1. INTRODUCTION
Earthquakes are a real threat to people's lives and property. The recent earthquake in Halabja
city is the best proof that it is time to take seismic load seriously. Therefore, it is a must now
to predict the strength of the quake and prepare for it to avoid or minimize damage. It should
be noted here that strengthening the building against seismic load increases its cost, so this
work was done.
The earthquake leads to random ground movements, which occur in all possible directions
originating from the epicenter. Vertical motion is rare, but horizontal movement is more
common. The earthquake leads the building to vibrate and develop inertial forces in the
building itself. Because the motion of the earth is vibratory, it generates contradictory effects,
as tensile stresses can become compressive and compressive stresses can become tensile ones.
Consequently, the earthquake can lead to the compressive failure of concrete or yield of
reinforcing steel in addition to the destruction of the building's decorations. In addition, the
vibration movement leads to storey drift that hurt the inhabitants and their propertys [1].
Usually in Iraq, people do not tend to build high structures due to the foundations problems,
but the high structures in Iraq immune to earthquakes in three ways [2]: 1.Bare frame, 2.Shear
wall frame and 3.Brace frame.
Earthquake analysis is a dynamic analysis since earthquake force is dynamic in nature
whose acceleration fairly changes with time compared to the structure’s natural frequency.
Dynamic analysis gives real time results for earthquake loading in terms of dynamic
displacements, time history results and the modal analysis. The analysis is done manually for
simple structures or by using Finite element analysis for complex structures to find out the
mode shapes and frequencies [3]. In the present study, the effect of earthquake loading on
reinforced concrete beams, slabs, columns and shear walls is calculated and discussed from
constructional and economical points of view. The main parameters that were taken into
considerations in the present study in the seismic performance of model are story drift, base
shear, story deflection and time period.
2. OBJECTIVES
The main objective of the current research is to analyze and design a reinforced concrete 20
multi-storey building twice, once without taking the seismic loads into consideration, and
second, with taking seismic loads into considerations. The goal is finding and discussing the
difference between the two cases from the constructional and economical points of view.
ETABS software was used to carry out this question. The structure was subjected to traditional
gravity self-weight, finishing additional dead load, live load and seismic loads. The applied
loads on the building were calculated using ACI 318-14 Code. Seismic loads are calculated
using ASCE 7-10 and dynamic analysis of the building was conducted using response
spectrum method.
reinforced concrete lift section that contains four shear walls. There are eight flats in the first
eight floors, and then, there are four flats in each story up to the top. Table 1 shows the three
dimensional model of the building, while Table 2 shows the applied load in detail.
Figure 2 2D plan model case study Figure 3 Side view case study
Table 2 The applied loads in detail for the two loading cases
Load Case 1st Loading case 2nd Loading case
Self-weight Density of the reinforced concrete is 24 kN/m3
Additional dead load Flooring load is 200 kg/m2
Live load Live load on the floors is 250 kg/m2
Earthquake load - according to ASCE 7-10 Code
4. ANALYSIS
The analysis of reinforced concrete structure has been done considering the entire structure as
a three-dimension model framed structure using ETABS [4]. Beam and columns are
considered as beam elements, while the slabs and shear walls are considered as thin plate
elements. There are 2508 joints, 1432 beams and 222 thin plate elements for slabs and shear
walls in the ETABS modeling. The main objective of modeling the whole structure as 3D
model is to take into account the behavior of each and every component in space structure
environment. The slab is modeled as a thin plate element to carry its own weight, additional
dead load and the live load as gravity distributed pressures. Lift well and staircase walls are
modeled as thin plate shear wall to resist the lateral loads like earthquake load. When seismic
loads were applied, the natural frequencies and time periods in first 10 modes are found to be
1.565, 1.46, 0.929, 0.798, 0.68, 0.401, 0.347, 0.345, 0.319, 0.24 period sec as show in Figure
4.
5. DESIGN
6. SEISMIC LOAD
ASCE 7-10 Auto Seismic Load Calculation Code was used to determine the lateral loads
caused by earthquake. These loads were calculated automatically through generating lateral
seismic loads for load pattern according to ASCE 7-10, as calculated by ETABS, assuming
that the Eccentricity Ratio is 5% for all diaphragms [9].
Area of Steel in the Columns of the 9th Storey Area of Steel in the Columns of the 10th Storey
6000
WITHOUT EQ EQ 12000
Without EQ EQ
5000 10000
Area of Steel (mm2)
4000
3000 6000
2000 4000
1000 2000
0 0
C46 C2 C8 C50 C12 C10 C43 C42 C46 C49 C54 C47 C18 C21
Column No. Column No.
Figure 5 The columns of the 9th storey Figure 6 The columns of the 10th storey
Area of Steel in the Columns of the 11th Storey
8000
WITHOUT EQ EQ
6000
Area of Steel (mm2)
4000
2000
0
C50 C12 C46
Column No.
Figure 7 The columns of the 11th storey
945
1000 898 890
743 769
800 721
619 619
600 509 509 467 509 466 509 465 509 509 509 509 509 509
Figures 8, 9 and 10 in addition to Table 5 show the top and bottom reinforcement increase
in the beams of the storey 10, the most affected storey. These beams are at 30 meters high.
WITHOUT EQ
Top reinforcement area of the beams in storey 10
2000 1885 1873
EQ
1735 1727
1800 1618 1609
1600 1497 1497 1492
1366 1363
1400 1216 1169
Area of Steel (mm2)
7.5. Displacement
Figure 13 shows the maximum displacement values generated by the earthquake load that is
described by the response spectrum method. Based on the above, Table 7 summarizes the
differences that took place in reinforcing steel bars between the case of no earthquake and the
case of earthquake. It was found that, due to including earthquake loading, the addition in
reinforcement was by about 327%, 165%, 40% and 91.3% for columns, beams, slabs and
shear walls, respectively. Therefore, cost was raised by about 328%, 165%, 40% and 91.3%
for columns, beams, slabs and shear walls, respectively. In other words, the total cost
increased by about 624.3% due to taking earthquake into considerations.
8. CONCLUSIONS
The earthquake applied affective lateral forces on the building side. This effect was obvious in
the columns, beams and shear walls, especially in the joints among them. These joints have
been strengthened by additional reinforcement to withstand the lateral forces of the
earthquake. The slabs were surrounded monolithically by the beams, so the impact of the
earthquake was obvious, but less than that took place in columns, beams and shear walls. The
addition in reinforcement was by about 327%, 165%, 40% and 91.3% for columns, beams,
slabs and shear walls, respectively. Therefore, cost was raised by about 327%, 165%, 40%
and 91.3% for columns, beams, slabs and shear walls, respectively. More specifically, the
total cost of the building increased by 624.3% due to taking the earthquake into
considerations.
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