Comparative Study of RC Shear wall at Different Location in Multi-Storied Building

Abstract

The structure in high seismic areas may be susceptible to the severe damage. In the seismic design of buildings,
reinforced concrete structural walls or shear walls act as major earthquake resisting members. Along with gravity load
structure has to withstand lateral load. Now a days, shear wall in R.C. structure are most popular system to resist lateral
load due to earthquake, wind, blast etc. Shear wall have high in plane stiffness and strength which can be used to
simultaneously resist large horizontal loads and support gravity loads.
In this present study, main focus is to determine the efficient location of shear wall in multi-storey building. An earthquake
load is calculated on a building of fifteen stories located in zone V by seismic coefficient method using IS 1893 (PART – I):
2002. Effectiveness of shear wall has been studied with the help of five different models. Model one is bare frame structural
system and other four models are dual type structural system. The computer aided analysis is done by using ETABS 13.1 to
find out the effective lateral load system during earthquake in high seismic area. The performance of the building is
evaluated using different parameters such as Lateral Displacement, Storey shear and Storey Drift.