Earthquake Resistant Design Of Low-Rise Soft Storey Framed Building

Abstract

Present study RC framed building (G+10) with soft storey located in Seismic Zone- II, III, IV and V is considered. The main objective of present study is the study of strengthing  performance of Soft storey(SS) buildings according to various cases such as: (a) bare frame building (b)building with uniform infill in all storey (c) building with SS (d) SS with stiffer column (e) SS with corner shear wall (f) SS with corner cross bracing . The separate models were generated using commercial software ETABS. Infill stiffness was modeled using an equivalent diagonal strut approach. Parametric studies on displacement, storey drift, shear force, bending moment and base shear have been carried out using equivalent static analysis to investigate the influence of this parameter on the behavior of building with SS. This paper has a detail introduction of the soft storey with a summarized methodology of the titled topic