Evaluation of effective location and thickness of shear wall on performance of multi-storey building subjected to lateral load

Abstract

The aim of the present study is to identify the optimum thickness of the shear divider and suitable position of shear divider in the structure. In this present study G+20 storeys building is considered which is positioned in a zone IV with soil type as medium. The linear static analysis method is used for analysis by using etabs 2016 software. We have considered four different thickness of shear wall such as 150mm, 175mm, 200mm and 225mm.and again considered the three different position in the buildings such as shear divider at corner, shear divider at mid span of the structure and core divider at center of the structure. The parameters considered are storey dislocation, storey drift, Overturning moment, base shear and modal time period.