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Building Irregularity

Building Irregularity

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BUILDING

IRREGULARITY
Engr. Mridul Hasan, PEng.
Building irregularity
Buildings with irregularity in plan or elevation suffer much more damage in earthquakes than buildings with regular configuration. A building may
be considered as irregular, if at least one of the conditions given below are applicable:

Plan irregularity: Following are the different types of irregularities

that may exist in the plan of a building.

(i) Torsion irregularity

Mexico City building failure associated with the torsional-translation motion, (Earthquake Engineering ANNEXES, 2007)

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(ii) Re-entrant corners

Damages caused to the roof diaphragm at the re-Entrant Corner of West Anchorage High School, Alaska, during 1964 Earthquake.

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(iii) Diaphragm Discontinuity

Diaphragms with abrupt discontinuities or variations in stiffness, including those having cut-out [Figure 6.2.27(c)] or open areas greater than 50
percent of the gross enclosed diaphragm area, or changes in effective diaphragm stiffness of more than 50 percent from one story to the next.

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(iv) Out- of-Plane Offsets

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(v) Non-parallel Systems

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A building damaged due to torsion eccentricity.

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Vertical Irregularity: Following are different types of irregularities

that may exist along vertical elevations of a building.

(i) Stiffness Irregularity - Soft Storey

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Example buildings having first soft story collapse after earthquake (a) China earthquake 2008

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Photo shows the Yun Men Tsui Ti building, a large commercial-residential complex, severely rotated in Hualien, Taiwan, on Feb. 10, 2018, in the wake of
a powerful earthquake. Kyodo via AP Images

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(ii) Mass Irregularity

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(iii) Vertical Geometric Irregularity

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(iv) Vertical In-Plane Discontinuity in Vertical Elements Resisting Lateral Force

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(v) Discontinuity in Capacity - Weak Story

A weak storey is one in which the storey lateral strength is less than 80% of that in the storey above. The storey lateral strength is the total
strength of all seismic force resisting elements sharing the storey shear

in the considered direction [Figure 6.2.28(e)]. An extreme weak storey

is one where the storey lateral strength is less than 65% of that in the

storey above.

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