Abstract:
Now a days in our country it common using shear wall for construction of lift shaft. But Concrete shear walls or structural walls are often used in multistory buildings to resist lateral loads such as wind, seismic and blast loads. Such walls are used when the frame system alone is insufficient or uneconomical to withstand all the lateral loads or when partition walls can be made load bearing, replacing columns and beams. When we see the construction of shear wall, it needs much time, form work, concrete and reinforcements than beams and columns.
This project tries to investigate the effect of using shear wall as lift shaft instead of beam column frame system on the cost of the building. For buildings which is constructed in low seismic area and between high rise buildings the effect of lateral loads is negligible. For such buildings using shear wall frame system may be uneconomical. To meet the main objective of these project three buildings with different story height have been analyze and design. In this regard G+5, G+7 and G+10 buildings were selected and conduct the analysis for gravity load with two cases by using structural analysis software.
The first part of this project includes modeling and analysis of the proposed buildings with two cases (that is with shear wall and beam-column frame system). In this study the analysis is done by considering gravity load only. From the analysis results of the two cases compare and investigate the effect of using shear wall on the response of the structure for gravity load.
The second part of the project covers the design of those beams and columns which has different response for the two cases and also the design of shear wall. Finally estimate the amount of concrete, formwork and reinforcement required for those beams, columns and shear wall to investigate effect of using shear wall as lift shaft instead of beam column frame system on the cost of the building.