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DYNAMIC ANALYSIS OF MULTI-STOREY BUILDING

Udaya Bala K1*, Manish Kumar Gupta2 and Senthil Pandian M3

1P.G. student, School of Mechanical and Building Sciences, VIT University, Chennai, India

2 Structural Engineer, Manish Consultants, Gurgaon, India

3Assistant professor, School of Mechanical and Building Sciences, VIT University, Chennai, India

*Corresponding Author:
Udaya Bala K
E-mail: kesarlaudaya.bala2015@vit.ac.in

Received 17 June, 2017; Accepted 24 November, 2017

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Abstract

In this paper, for the dynamic analysis, a plan of a multi-storey building is taken and it has been modelled with different structural elements for minimum story displacement. The dynamic analysis of multi-storey buildings is done using Etabs 2015 by IS and SP codal provisions (ETABS User’s Manual, 2015). The multi-storey building is R.C.C. structure with 3 basements + ground floor + 14 upper floors in zone IV with a maximum earth fill of 750 mm on the ground floor for landscape requirements. By comparing the results of dynamic analysis, the performance of the structural system can be evaluated.

Keywords

Response spectrum method, Time history method, Multi-storey building

Introduction

The one of the most sensitive issues that the Structural Engineers face is the selection of proper procedure for estimating the seismic performance of the structure. This is very important when they are dealing with high rise structures as the improper selection of the method ultimately leads to the results which are far away from the correct results. Dynamic analysis is one of the effective procedures for evaluating the seismic performance of the building. The damage control is one of important design considerations which is increasing its influence and can be achieved only by introducing dynamic analysis in the design. The dynamic analysis can be done by soft wares like Etabs, Staad Pro, and SAP. Etabs is one of the leading software which is presently using by many companies and Structural Engineers for their projects. In this paper Etabs is used for the dynamic analysis of the multi-storey building. The methodology followed in Etabs for the analysis is as follows modelling of the multi-storey building, static analysis, designing and dynamic analysis. For the study, the multi-storey building is being designed to resist almost all the lateral forces. The tower-area columns are located in the grid of 10.4 × 10.4 m having square and rectangle sizes. In basement areas, columns are at 8 × 8 m grid (approx.) and columns with beam-slab system is provided.

 Literature Review

Bahador, et al., 2011 has modelled a multi-storey irregular building with 20 storeys using Etabs and deled how the height of the building will affect the structural response of the building which has shear walls and also dynamic responses of building is investigated under actual earthquakes, EL-CENTRO 1949 and CHI-CHI Taiwan 1999. (Mohammed and Gouse, 2015) has taken a 15 storey high building with different shapes like rectangular, L-shape, H-shape, C-shape for comparison and dynamic analysis has been done to evaluate the deformation of the structure. (Dubey, et al., 2015) has modelled multistory irregular buildings with 20 stories and has been investigated dynamic responses of the building under actual earthquake, DELINA (ALASKA) 2002 to compare time history and response spectrum methods. (Mohit and Savita, 2014) has taken a problem on G+30 storied regular building for static and dynamic analysis as per the IS-1893- 2002-Part-1 for the zones- 2, 3 and summarized the post processing results. (Yousuf and Shimpale, 2013) has taken four models of G+5 building with one symmetric plan and remaining irregular plan for dynamic analysis with plan irregularities to minimize the damage to the structure and its structural components during an earthquake. (Ni and Kyaw, 2014) has taken a 12 storied building for comparative study of static, dynamic analysis under load consideration of Uniformed Building Code (UBC-1997) and compared displacement, storey shear, storey moment and storey drift. (Arvindreddy and Fernandes, 2015) has taken a 15 storey regular, irregular building for static, dynamic analysis and shown the behaviour of irregular structure in comparison with regular structure.

Data To Be Used

A. Initialization of grid system

As mentioned, the study is on multi-storey building, the grid system is initialized for the building with the dimensions as per the plan with 3 basements + ground floor + 14 upper floors. The irregular multistorey building modelled is for office purpose Table 1 and (Figures 1-3).

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Figure 1: Basement plan.

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Figure 2: Ground floor plan.

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Figure 3: Typical floor plan.

Plan Height (m)
Total height of the building
(From plinth To terrace)
61.5
Basement- 3 3.6
Basement- 2 3.6
Basement- 1 5.2
Ground floor 4.8
Typical floors 4.05 on each

Table 1: Data to be used

By taking the plan of multi-storey building, four building models are modelled with different structural elements which are as follows:

1) Building with flat slabs

2) Building with floor slabs

3) Building with flat slabs & shear walls

4) Building with floor slabs & shear walls.

B. Material properties

As the structure is the reinforced concrete one, the materials are concrete and steel.

• Density of reinforced concrete shall be 25 kN/m3.

• The min. Grade of Concrete in all RCC structural members shall be as follows:

RCC columns, shear walls

• From foundation to ground floor: M55

• From ground floor to third floor: M45

• From third Floor to sixth floor : M40

• Above sixth floor : m35

RCC beams at basements: m25

RCC beams at ground floor-tower area: m25

RCC Beams at ground floor- Non-tower area: m35

RCC slabs at basements and ground floor: m25

• Flat slab with drops: m35

RCC beams and slabs at typical floors (Superstructure): m35

• High yield strength deformed bars Fe 500 conforming to IS 1786:2008 with Fy= 500 N/mm2 is used.

C. Section properties

The sections required for the building are frame sections and slab sections. As the building is of multi-storey one, the sections have to be meeting the requirements of loads. The frame sections are beams and columns. A set of dimensions are taken for beams and columns.

The beam dimensions are as follows,

230 × 750 mm

300 × 525 mm

300 × 600 mm

300 × 1350 mm

350 × 600 mm

450 × 600 mm

450 × 1850 mm

600 × 600 mm

600 × 750 mm

600 × 1850 mm

700 × 675 mm

750 × 750 mm

The column dimensions are as follows,

300 × 525 mm

300 × 600 mm

450 × 900 mm

600 × 600 mm

600 × 1050 mm

750 × 750 mm

750 × 900 mm

750 × 1050 mm

900 × 900 mm

900 × 1050 mm

900 × 1200 mm

1050 × 1050 mm

1050 × 1200 mm

1200 × 1200 mm

1200 × 1350 mm

1250 × 1400 mm

1400 × 1250 mm

1400 × 1400 mm

The typical flat slab sections used is of thickness 250 mm with a drop of 150 mm and typical floor slab sections used is of thickness 150 mm. The shear walls used are of thickness 300 mm, 350 mm, 400 mm, 450 mm and 900 mm.

D. Modelling of frame and slab elements

The modelling of frame and slab elements is done with the dimensions as mentioned above in the section properties. The floor slabs are modelled as membrane elements and flat slabs are modelled as thin-shell elements (Figures 4-7).

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Figure 4: Building with flat slabs.

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Figure 5: Building with floor slabs.

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Figure 6: Building with flat slabs and shear walls.

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Figure 7: Building with floor slabs and shear walls.

E. Loading parameters

Self weights of materials

• Density of reinforced concrete- 25.0 kN/m3

• Density of structural steel- 78.5 kN/m3

• Density of plain concrete- 24.0 kN/m3

• Density of floor finishes/plasters- 20.0 kN/m3

• Density of soil (Saturated) - 20.0 kN/m3

Imposed (live) loads

• Typical Floor- 4.0 kN/m2

• 1st basement floor- Stack parking- 7.5 kN/m2

• Ground Floor-Fire tender access region- 12.0 kN/ m2

• All basement floors- 5.0 kN/m2

• Terrace- 5.0 kN/m2

Dead loads

• Self-weight of slab (Typical flat slab=0.250 × 25) - 6.25 kN/m2

• Self-weight of slab (Typical 250+150 thick drop near columns= 0.400 × 25) - 10 kN/m2

• Self-weight of typical floor slab (0.150 × 25) - 3.75 kN/m2

• Self-weight of slab (1st and 2nd basement floor) (=0.15 × 25) - 3.75 kN/m2

• Self-weight of Slab (Ground Floor) (=0.200 × 25) - 5.00 kN/m2

• Floor Finish (1st and 2nd basement floor) (Including services) (=2 kN/m2 + 0.5 kN/m2 for services) - 2.50 kN/m2

• Floor finish on ground and typical floor- 2.0 kN/ m2

• False ceiling and services on ground and typical floor- 0.25 kN/m2

• Partition wall on ground & typical floor- 1.0 kN/ m2

• Floor finish on terrace

• Brick Bat Coba (avg. 175 mm thick) - 3.50 kN/m2

• Flooring + Insulation- 1.50 kN/m2

• False Ceiling- 0.25 kN/m2

• Suspended services below slab- 0.25 kN/m2

• Concrete pedestals for placing and erecting services on top of slab- 3.75 kN/m2

• Facade Load on periphery- 5.0 kN/m

Self-weight of different walls

Dynamic analysis of multi-storey building:

200 mm thick block wall of (4.05 m - 0.6 m) height = (4.05-0.6) × (0.200 × 8 + 0.040)

• 20) = 8.28 kN/m

Dynamic analysis of multi-storey building:

100 mm thick block wall of (4.05 m - 0.6 m) height = (4.05-0.6) × (0.100 × 8 + 0.040)

• 20) = 5.52 kN/m

Dynamic analysis of multi-storey building:

150 mm thick Parapet wall of 1m height on terrace = 1 × (0.150 × 8 + 0.040)

• 20) = 2.0 kN/m

Analysis

A. Response spectrum analysis

Under earthquake ground motions, it’s a maximum response representation of idealized single degree freedom system which is having certain period and damping. The terms maximum relative displacement, maximum absolute acceleration or maxmimum relative velocity are expressed for various damping values by plotting maximum response against undamped natural frequency. For this purpose, according to (IS 1893(Part 1):2002, 2002), response spectrum analysis case is performed (IS: 875 (Part 1), 1987; IS: 875 (Part 2), 1987; IS: 456-2000, 2000).

B. Time history analysis

When structure’s base is subjected to a specific time history ground motion, the dynamic response analysis of it, at each time increment is called ‘time history analysis’. From past natural events alternatively recorded ground motions database is time histories reliable source but all seismological characterstics for the site suitability aren’t recorded in any given site. In time history generation, the three main parameters are recorded ground motions from analogous magnitude, distance and soil condition category(bin). To make site characterstics more definite and similar, we have to add more constraints to characterstics of the bin. But in the bin, there may be serious avilability limit for real records. The target response spectrum will be determined from seismic hazard analysis which can be different from response spectrum of selected ground motions around fundamental period of the structure. To comply mean spectral accelerations with target spectrum records are scaled by single factor scales. Simply with a single factor scaling of the record, close agreement will not be achieved between the response spectrum of the record and target (SP-16- 1980; IS: 13920, 1993).

Methodology

The multi-storey building is modelled with 14 stories, 2 basements and dynamic analysis has been done by response spectrum and time history analysis.

Results and Discussion

The maximum storey displacement of the buildings in different stories in both X and Y direction for response spectrum analysis is shown in (Figures 8 and 9). The maximum storey drift of the buildings in different stories in both X and Y direction for response spectrum analysis is shown in (Figures 10 and 11). The maximum centre of mass displacement of the buildings in different stories in both X and Y direction for response spectrum analysis is shown in (Figures 12 and 13). The spectral displacement of the buildings in both X and Y direction for time history analysis is shown from (Figures 14-21) and Tables 2-5.

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Figure 8: Max. storey displacement in X-direction.

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Figure 9: Max. storey displacement in Y-direction.

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Figure 10: Max. storey drift in X-direction.

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Figure 11: Max. storey drift in Y-direction.

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Figure 12: Max. centre of mass displacement in X-direction.

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Figure 13: Max. centre of mass displacement in Y-direction.

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Figure 14: Spectral displacement of flat slab building in X-direction.

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Figure 15: Spectral displacement of flat slab building in Y-direction.

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Figure 16: Spectral displacement of floor slab building in X-direction.

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Figure 17: Spectral displacement of floor slab building in Y-direction.

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Figure 18: Spectral displacement of flat slab & shear wall building in X-direction.

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Figure 19: Spectral displacement of flat slab & shear wall building in Y-direction.

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Figure 20: Spectral displacement of floor slab & shear wall building in X-direction

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Figure 21: Spectral displacement of floor slab & shear wall building in Y-direction.

Structural elements X-direction Y-direction
Flat slabs 374.97 718.09
Floor slabs 146.82 235.67
Flat slabs and shear walls 57.95 55.94
Floor slabs and shear walls 47.54 45.82

Table 2: Max. storey displacement (mm) (Response spectrum analysis)

Structural elements X-direction Y-direction
Flat slabs 0.008042 0.015574
Floor slabs 0.003039 0.00488
Flat slabs  and shear walls 0.001128 0.001108
Floor slabs and shear walls 0.000915 0.000904

Table 3: Max. storey drift (unit less) (Response spectrum analysis)

Structural elements X-direction Y-direction
Flat slabs 344.00 367.32
Floor slabs 119.33 119.34
Flat slabs and shear walls 38.46 39.53
Floor slabs and shear walls 31.53 33.26

Table 4: Max. centre of mass displacement (mm) (Response spectrum analysis)

Structural elements X-direction Y-direction
Flat slabs 682.54 100.69
Floor slabs 158.19 17.05
Flat slabs and shear walls 138.14 1.45
Floor slabs and shear walls 133.74 1.68

Table 5: Max. spectral displacement (mm) (Time history analysis)

In response spectrum analysis, displacement is higher in Y-direction, whereas, in time history analysis, displacement is higher in X-direction. From the maximum displacement values of all the buildings (with different structural elements), time history analysis has given the high variation between the values of X and Y directions when compared with response spectrum analysis X and Y directions values. The maximum displacement values of time history analysis in Y-direction are very less when compared with response spectrum analysis Y-direction values. In time history analysis, maximum displacement graphs in Y-direction for the buildings with shear walls has given more fluctuations when compared with the graphs for the buildings without shear walls. The maximum storey drift values of all the buildings (with different structural elements) are under storey drift limitation of IS: 1893-2002, Part-1.

Conclusion

• The maximum storey displacement, maximum storey drift and maximum centre of mass displacement values obtained from response spectrum analysis at lower stories are lesser when compared with the values at higher stories.

• By comparing results of two mentioned analysis, it is observed that the displacements of time history analysis are higher than response spectrum analysis.

• To visualize performance of a building under a given earthquake, time history analysis is an elegant tool.

• For high rise buildings, response spectrum analysis is not sufficient, we have to analyse through time history analysis.

• For important structures, when compared with response spectrum analysis, time history analysis has to be performed as it predicts the structural response more accurately.

• From the results, it is clear that, shear walls are to be present in the high rise buildings to control storey displacement, storey drift and centre of mass displacement.

• When the high rise building is constructing with the structural elements like flat slabs and floor slabs, shear wall combination is to be adopted to control lateral deflections.

• Usage of flat slabs in the high rise building reduces no. of beams and gives aesthetical appearance by increasing clear height of the room, but, floor slabs are good in controlling storey displacement.

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