Matlab Code for

Economical Seismic
Design of Irregular
Building

Mohammed Zoheb Nawaz (14MST1010)

Under guidance of
K Karthikeyan Sir
S Sanat Kumar Sir
Objective
Write a Code in Matlab for analyzing &
Designing Irregular Building
To Optimize the structure with dampers to
fulfill the criteria of economy
Building Configuration

15 m

6m 3m

21 m
 No of Storeys : 12
Beam dimensions : 230 mm x 400 mm
Column Dimensions : 450mm x 450 mm
Slab thickness : 150mm
Fck = 25
Fy = 415
LL = 4 kN/m2 ; 1.5 kN/m2
Coding algorithm
The Program Consists of three parts
Preprocessing Defining structure geometry and
properties
Processing Structural analysis using stiffness
matrix
Post processing viewing the results
Pre-Processing
Screenshot of
coordinates
Sample of load
coordinates
Processing
Screenshot of Stiffness Matrix Code
Modal Analysis
Process
Dead Load Analysis
Live Load analysis
Eq +X Load Analysis
Eq +y Load Analysis
Load Combinations
Load Combinations
SF
BM
Structure with Friction
Isolation
Structure with Viscous
Damper
Structure with Tuned
mass damper
Structure with shear wall
Comparison Of Shear
Force
4500

4000

3500

3000

2500

Base Shear (kN)

X - Direction
2000
Y Direction

1500

1000

500

0
M1 M2 M3 M4 M5

Models
Drifts
Storey M-1 M-3 M-4 M-5
1 3 3 1 3.9
2 6 8 1 5.5
3 7 8 1 6.8
4 10 8 4 7.7
5 11 8 12 8.3
6 13 10 10 8.5
7 15 10 10 8.4
8 15 11 11 8
9 17 6 6 7.3
10 18 6 10 6.2
11 21 12 10 5.4
Comparison of Drifts
25

20

15

M1
Storey Drift
M3
10 M4
M5

0
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11

Storey
SF & BM at Base Storey
Maximum
Maximum
Bending Percentage Of
Models Shear force
Moments Reduction
(kN)
(kNm)

M-1 272 817 ---

M-2 201 233 26%

M-3 180 539 33%

M-4 254 764 6.6%

M-5 50 147 81.6%

Conclusion
By using Shear walls we can make structure more
resistable
But in Cost point of view it is uneconomical
Alternate to that Using viscous damper may be
econmical & safe structure
Thank you
Any Queries.??