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Design And Analysis Of High-Rise Building

With Floating Columns
PODILI JYOTHI BOPPUDI BULLI BABU
M.Tech Student, Dept of CIVIL, Chalapathi Assistant Professor, Dept of CIVIL, Chalapathi
Institute of Technology, Guntur, A.P, India Institute of Technology, Guntur, A.P, India
Abstract: Earthquakes in several elements of the planet incontestable the dangerous consequences and
vulnerability of inadequate structures. In gift situation buildings with floating column may be a typical
feature of the trendy multi-storey construction in urban India. The floating column may be a vertical
component that at its lower level rests on a beam. The unstable inertia forces generated at its floor levels
in an exceedingly building have to be compelled to be brought down on the peak to the bottom and any
deviation or separation during this load transfer path leads to poor performance. so options like floating
columns area unit highly undesirable in buildings inbuilt seismically active space. gift study examines the
adverse impact of the floating columns in the building. Models of the frame area unit developed for multi-
storey RC buildings with and while not floating columns to hold out the comparative study of structural
parameters like natural amount, base shear, and horizontal displacement beneath unstable excitation.
Results obtained depicts that the alternative lives of providing lateral bracing to decrease the lateral
deformation should be taken. The RC building with floating column once providing lateral bracing is
analyzed. A comparative study of the results obtained is administrated for all higher than 3 models. The
building with floating columns once providing bracings showed improved seismic performance.
Keywords: Floating Column; Seismic Response; Bracings;
I. INTRODUCTION floating columns rest at the paper overhanging
beams while not considering the exaggerated
During past earthquake concrete (RC) buildings are
vulnerability of the lateral load resisting system as
broken on a really large scale. These RC buildings
a result of vertical discontinuity [Prerna Nautiyal
are broken as a result of numerous reasons. a good
et.al.]. The study allotted on the adverse impact of
vary of structural damages discovered throughout
perimeter frame separation on the seismal response
past earthquakes across the planet has been terribly
of RC buildings suggested that responsibleness of
educative in distinguishing the reason for failure.
block around the perimeter frame is to be checked
The principal causes of harm to RC buildings are a
[JostIhsanEngin S.D. and Zuhal Ozdemir]. This
soft story, floating columns, mass irregularities,
type of construction doesn't produce any downside
inconsistent seismal performance, soil and
beneath vertical loading condition. But during the
foundation impact, pounding of adjacent structures
associate earthquake, a transparent load path isn't
and inadequate ductile particularization of
obtainable for transferring the lateral forces to the
members. the ton of analysis work has been allotted
foundation. Lateral forces accumulated in higher
on procedural assumptions, made in different
floors throughout the earthquake ought to be
seismal codes, for the assessment of the seismal
transmitted by the projected cantilever beams.
capability of existing buildings [Bardakis V.G. and
Overturning forces so developed exceeds the
Dritsos S.E.]. The inertia force developed at
capacity of the columns within the ground floor.
completely different floor levels got to be brought
beneath this case, the columns begin to deform
down on the peak of the frame through shortest
& buckle, leading to total collapse. this can be
doable path; any separation in transfer path ends up
thanks to a primary deficiency within the strength
in poor performance of the RC building beneath
of ground floor columns, projected cantilever
earthquake excitation. RC buildings with a column
beams & malleability of beam- column joints
that drop or float on beams at the associate
[PankajAgarwal et.al.]. Fig.1 illustrates the harm of
intermediate story and don't go all the thanks to the
RC building with floating columns under seismal
inspiration have discontinuities within the load
excitation. Previous experiments on buildings that
transfer path. Since balconies don't seem to be
area unit seismically retrofitted, to strengthen
counted within the Floor house index (FSI),
ground floor columns and beam-column joints,
building having balconies overhanging within the
victimization Carbon Fiber strengthened Polymer
higher stories on the far side the footprint space at
(CFRP) and CFRP laminates have shown higher
the bottom story overhangs up to 1.2m to 1.5 m in
seismal response [Balsamoa A. et.al. and Garcia
set up area unit typically provided on both sides of
Pablo Neruda et.al.]
the building. within the higher story, the perimeter
columns of the bottom story area unit interrupted,
and floating columns area unit provided on the
overhanging perimeter of the building. These

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Fig.1.1. Failure of R.C. Building with floating
columns
II. METHODOLOGY
Floating column may be a vertical member, that at
its lower level rests on a beam that may be a
horizontal member. The beam successively
transfers the load to the column below it, therefore
load transfer path within the discontinuous frame
changes from vertical to horizontal. There square
measure several comes in which floating columns
square measure adopted, particularly on top of the
bottom floor, wherever transfer girders square
measure utilized, so the additional open area is
offered within the ground floor. These open spaces
could also be needed for auditorium or parking
purpose. therefore, floating column is additionally
associate often encountered construction apply, that
it ought to be avoided as a result of it ends up in the
overload of the beams. The joint between beam and
floating column square measure thought of as
essential since their stability influence, the general
stability of building and failure of a beam-column
joint in the concrete moment resisting frame was
known mutually of the leading causes of the
collapse of such structure.
Fig.2.1. Symmetric RC building without floating
columns.
III. RESPONSE SPECTRUM ANALYSIS
(RSA)
It is the linear dynamic analysis. This technique is
applicable for those structures wherever modes
other than the elemental one have an effect on
considerably the response of the structure. In this
method, the response of Multi-Degree-of-Freedom
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(MDOF) system is expressed because the
superposition of modal response, every modal
response is determined from the spectral analysis of
Single-Degree-of-Freedom (SDOF) system, that
square measure then combined to cipher the total
response. Modal analysis results in the response
history of the structure to a nominal ground motion;
but, the tactic is typically employed in conjunction
with a response spectrum [Prerna Nautiyal et.al.].
In our gift study, response spectrographic analysis
of all 3 models is carried out victimization
ETABS9.7.1 to see the result of the presence of
floating columns on seismic performance of RC
buildings.
STRENGTHENING TECHNIQUES:
The presence of floating columns in RC buildings
introduces sudden discontinuities within the lateral
strength and stiffness on its height. The seismic
performance of this kind of deficient structures
may be improved either by strengthening the
bottom story columns (local modification) or by
reducing the seismal demand through the
supplemental energy dissipation mechanisms
(global modification). many native modification
techniques like steel jacketing, concrete jacketing,
steel caging, FRP jacketing and bracing
components are used for passive energy dissipation
within the international (structure-level)
modification techniques. For gift study, the
building with floating columns is given lateral
bracings to cut back the lateral deformation.
Fig.3.1. Variation of Storey Drifts with Floor
levels.
Fig.3.2. Variation of Storey Drift with Floor levels
(After providing bracings)
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buildings with floating columns performed poorly AUTHOR’s PROFILE
beneath seismal excitation. therefore, to enhance
PODILI JYOTHI: I completed my
the seismal performance of the multi-storey RC
B.Tech from JNTUK, Kakinada
building, lateral bracings were provided. The
(Priyadarshini Institute of Technology
bracings improved seismal performance of multi-
storey building significantly as completely different and Science for women); currently i am pursuing
parameters like floor drift, storey shear, my M.Tech at Chalapathi Institute of Technology,
affiliated to JNTUK, KAKINADA.
fundamental measure and displacement improved
up to 100 percent to half-hour. BOPPUDI BULLI BABU: He is an
Assistant Professor in Department of
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