Controlling the earthquake-induced lateral displacement of RC buildings using shear walls: parametric study
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Controlling the earthquake-induced lateral displacement of RC buildings using shear walls: parametric study Mohamed A. Dahesh 1 & Ahmet Tuken 1 & Nadeem A. Siddiqui 1
Received: 28 April 2014 / Accepted: 1 April 2015 # Saudi Society for Geosciences 2015
Abstract Shear walls are known for their contribution in improving the lateral stiffness and thus controlling the story drift of the Reinforced Concrete (RC) buildings against earthquake loading. Although substantial research is available on shear wall-frame buildings, a detailed parametric study which can help the designers and field engineers to obtain an optimum arrangement of shear walls is missing in the literature. In the present study, a multi-story RC building, square in plan and assumed to be located in a seismically active city of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, was laterally stiffened with the shear walls of different thickness, height, configuration, and opening location. The building was then subjected to seismic forces, and the influence of shear walls in controlling the lateral response of the building was studied by varying the above parameters. The earthquake was considered from one direction only while studying the effect of the first two parameters (i.e., thickness and height) as the building and shear wall arrangements were symmetric along the two orthogonal directions. However, in case of third and fourth parameters (i.e., shear wall configuration and opening location), earthquake was considered from the two directions separately as the shear wall configuration and opening location were not symmetric in the two orthogonal directions. The results of the present study are very useful for obtaining the optimum amount and arrangement of shear walls in a given RC frame building against a specified seismic loading.
* Nadeem A. Siddiqui [email protected] 1
Department of Civil Engineering, King Saud University, Riyadh 11421, Saudi Arabia
Keywords Shear wall . Seismic loading . Multi-story RC building . Lateral displacement . Serviceability
Introduction To have the lateral story drift within the code-specified limits is one of the major requirements in the seismic design of multi-story Reinforced Concrete (RC) buildings. Generally under seismic forces of moderate to high magnitude, these requirements are difficult to satisfy unless a sufficient quantity of shear wall is provided in the building. Shear walls improve the lateral stiffness of the building and thus control the story drift of the building substantially. As a result, almost all the seismic codes recommend the employment of shear walls for the design of RC buildings against seismic forces. In the recent past, substantial research has been carried out on seismic response of RC buildings with shear walls. Burak and Comlekoglu (2013) evaluated the effect of shear wall area to floor area ratio on the seismic response of RC buildings. They carried out nonlinear time-history analysis for 24 midrise building models having shear wall ratios ranging between 0.51 and 2.17 % in both dire
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