SEISMIC PERFORMANCE OF RCC BUILDING WITH SHEAR WALLS AT VARIOUS LOCATIONS - A REVIEW

Abstract

The occurrence of the earthquakes in the world and construction of high rise buildings demands for the construction of earthquake resistant buildings. Many of the tall buildings had collapsed in past earthquakes and the reasons attributed were poor design and construction practices. The high seismic areas may be susceptible to the severe damage in structures. In the seismic design shear walls play a major role in earthquake resisting members. Now a day, shear wall in R.C. structure are most popular system to resist lateral load due to earthquake. Shear wall is a rigid vertical diaphragm capable of transferring lateral forces from exterior walls, floors, and roofs to the ground foundation in a direction parallel to their planes. Shear walls have more strength, stiffness and resist in-plane loads that are applied along its height. Buildings with shear walls which are properly designed give a very good performance Also the positioning of shear wall has
influence on the overall performance of the building. For effective performance of building it is essential to provide position of shear wall in an ideal location. In the present paper, studies of various researches were discussed on performance of RCC building with shear wall based on its location.