1Post graduate Student, Department of Civil Engineering, The National Institute of Engineering, Mysore
2Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, The National Institute of Engineering, Mysore
Online published on 8 May, 2017.
In recent times, many buildings are planned and constructed with architectural complexities. The complexities include various types of irregularities like floating columns at various level and locations. These floating columns are highly disadvantageous in building built in seismically active areas. The earthquake forces that are developed at different floor levels in building need to be carried down along the height to ground by shortest path, but due to floating column there is discontinuity in the load transfer path which results in poor performance of building.
In this paper we focus on the building to be analyzed as a whole by Liner static analysis for RC and composite structure consisting parameters such as floating columns in different positions in plan, in buildings of various height such as G+3, G+10 and G+15 in earthquake zones V. Comparison of various parameters such as storey shear, storey drift and storey displacement is done.
Floating column, irregular building, earthquake behavior, composite structure, linear static analysis, ETABS
