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Earthquake Resistant Design: Effect of Configuration

The document discusses how the configuration of a building affects its earthquake resistance. Irregular layouts in plan or elevation reduce a building's stiffness and ability to resist seismic forces uniformly. An L-shaped building plan is less favorable than a rectangular plan due to differences in stiffness and mass distribution. Buildings should have compact, regular shapes in plan and elevation with continuous lateral load elements from the foundation to the roof. Engineering models of buildings for seismic analysis simplify reality by representing the building as masses connected by springs.

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Earthquake Resistant Design: Effect of Configuration

The document discusses how the configuration of a building affects its earthquake resistance. Irregular layouts in plan or elevation reduce a building's stiffness and ability to resist seismic forces uniformly. An L-shaped building plan is less favorable than a rectangular plan due to differences in stiffness and mass distribution. Buildings should have compact, regular shapes in plan and elevation with continuous lateral load elements from the foundation to the roof. Engineering models of buildings for seismic analysis simplify reality by representing the building as masses connected by springs.

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Earthquake Resistant

Design
Lecture 11:

Effect of Configuration

Bachelor of Civil Engineering


Institute of Engineering
Effect of irregular layout in
plan

vy due to rotation

Total deformation at
distant building corner

Example: L-shape in plan


Effect of irregular layout in
plan
Shape of Building in plan Layout of floor diaphragms

a) less favourable

c) less favourable d) more favourable

b) more favourable
Irregularity in Configuration
Irregularity in Configuration
Irregularity in
Elevation
Regularity of
buildings
Regularity in Plan
• horizontal stiffness and mass distribution in two
orthogonal directions
• shape in plan shall be compact
• stiffness of slabs as diaphragms is big
Regularity in Elevation
• members of lateral stiffening system shall be
continuous from foundation to top of building
• Horizontal stiffness and mass distribution are constant
across height
Reality Engineering model
v = displacement

mass m
[to]
v stiffness k
[kN/m]

v
g
ground acceleration v
g(t)
v
g horizontal,
vertical, t
g = ground
(rotations)

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