Seismic Analysis and Design of Multistorey Residential Building by Using ETABS
Authors:-V Tanuja, D Anusha, Y Devi Pravallika, P Mohan Vinay, B John Bhaskar
Abstract-One of the most frightening and destructive phenomena of a nature is a severe earth quake and it’s terrible after effects. Earthquake strike suddenly, violently and without warning at any time of the day or night. If an earthquake occurs in a populated area, it may cause many deaths and injuries and extensive property damage. Although there are no guarantees of safety during an earthquake, identifying potential hazards ahead of time and advance planning to save lives and significantly reduce injuries and property damage. Hence it is mandatory to do the seismic analysis and design to structural against collapse. It is highly impossible to prevent an earthquake from occurring, but the damage to the buildings can be controlled through proper design and detailing. Designing a structure in such a way that reducing damage during an earthquake makes the structure quite uneconomical, as the earth quake might or might not occur in its life time and is a rare phenomenon. In order to compete in the ever-growing competent market it is very important for a structural engineer to save time. As a sequel to this an attempt is made to analyze and design a multistoried building by using a software package E-Tabs. For analyzing a multi storied building one has to consider all the possible loadings and see that the structure is safe against all possible loading conditions. There are several methods for analysis of different frames like kani’s method, cantilever method, portal method, and Matrix method. The present project deals with the seismic analysis and design of a multi storyed residential building of G+10 RCC Residential Building. The dead load &live loads are applied and the design for beams, columns, footing is obtained-Tabs with its new features surpassed its predecessors, and compotators with its data sharing capabilities with other major software like AutoCAD, and MS Excel. We conclude that E- Tabs is a very powerful tool which can save much time and is very accurate in Designs. Thus it is concluded that E-Tabs package is suitable for the design of a multistoried building.
