EFFECT OF LATERAL FORCES ON THE BEHAVIOUR OF BUILDING WITH AND WITHOUT COUPLED SHEAR WALL

Abstract

Shear wall systems are one of the most commonly used lateral load resisting systems in high-rise buildings . Shear walls have very high in plane stiffness and strength, which can be used to simultaneously resist large horizontal loads and support gravity loads, making them quite advantageous in many structural engineering applications. There are lots of literatures available to design and analyze the shear wall. However, the decision about the location of shear wall in multi-storey building is not much discussed in any literatures. In this research, therefore, main focus is to determine the solution for shear wall location in multi-storey building. A RCC building of thirty storey placed in Delhi subjected to earthquake loading in zone -Iv is considered. An earthquake load is calculated by seismic coefficient method using IS 1893 (PART–I):2002. These analyses were performed using E –TAB.