Controllilg Earth Quake Induced Torsional Irregularity and Lateral Displacement of Rc Building with Shear Wall

Abstract

Abstract Buildings with shear walls have substantially less sway in the direction of their orientation, which results in significantly less damage to the building. Additionally, shear walls keep the roof or floor from swaying to and from by providing lateral stiffness. Walls may be particularly effective in resisting lateral stresses from wind and earthquakes when they are placed in strategic locations within a building. In this study, we model and analyse the building with varying shear wall positions using ETAB Ver. 0.2 in an effort to discover the optimal site of the shear wall in an asymmetric, irregular, star-shaped G + 14 building in zone IV. Two models, one with a shear wall and one without, have been analysed. The bare frame model has been compared to analytical results for top story displacement, base shear, time period, static eccentricity, story drift, and torsional moment.