International Journal of Civil Engineering and Technology (IJCIET)
Volume 9, Issue 6, June 2018, pp. 382–387, Article ID: IJCIET_09_06_044
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SEISMIC ANALYSIS OF RCC STRUCTURE
WITH INCLINED ADDITIONAL COLUMNS AT
CORNER COLUMNS
B.P. RADHA
Structural Engineering Student, Department of Civil Engineering,
Govt. S.K.S.J.T.I., K.R. Circle, Bengaluru, India
Dr. VIJAYA G.S
Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering
Govt. S.K.S.J.T.I., K.R. Circle, Bengaluru, India
ABSTRACT
Earthquakes constitute the worst natural hazard on the earth which many times turn
into a disaster causing widespread damage to buildings or other structures and may
result in huge loss of human life. The latest technology of “weak beam and strong
column” is given more importance and hence the columns in a seismic resistant
structure play a vital role in assessing the overall strength of the building against the
effect of seismic forces. Inclined columns could be called as oblique columns which are
being used till now for aesthetics and architectural requirements, are not vertical ones.
Here inclined columns which are inclined at specific degrees from the main vertical
column in a particular direction are being used in the project model.
From the analysis a reduction of about 29.12% (EL X) & 36.8% (RS X) in the value
of Maximum Storey Displacement, 14.54% (EL X) & 29% (RS X) reduction in the
Maximum Story Drift & about 61.07% (EL X) & 44.65% (RS X) in the value of
Maximum Overturning Moment are achieved when the Reference Model is provided
with 2 numbers of inclined additional column supports from Storey 4 i.e., S4 at the
corner columns.
Since the introduction of the inclined columns in addition to the corner columns is
significantly reducing the structure responses, the implementation of such columns
around the corner columns in a building in the present scenario with reference to the
feasibility of the columns with architectural planning & the external finished ground
levels needs to be given a second thought. As far as considered, in the cases of tall
buildings with 2 or 3 floor basements, such columns can be provided in bringing down
the responses and improving the stability of the structure based on further research
works on the same concept.
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Cite this Article: B.P. Radha and Dr. Vijaya G.S, Seismic Analysis of RCC Structure
with Inclined Additional Columns at Corner Columns, International Journal of Civil
Engineering and Technology, 9(6), 2018, pp. 382–387.
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1. INTRODUCTION
Many Civil Engineers have contributed towards the results of analysis of structures when
oblique columns/members used in structure. Among them in [1], Kona Narayana Reddy (2017)
has worked on “A Study on Multi-Storeyed Building with Oblique Columns by using ETABS
& has concluded that the sstructural system with oblique columns is found more effective since
it provides more resistance to the horizontal forces. In [2], Shahana E (2013) has modeled and
anlysed Concrete Diagrid structures with and without corner columns using STAAD Pro and
the results are compared. By comparing the analysis results it is concluded that the behavior of
structure without corner column is more effective than with corner columns. But in the present
study the overall structure behavior is studied by providing additional inclined columns at the
corner columns of the project model. Further in [3], Manthan I. Shah (2016) has studied on the
the behavior of Diagrid Structure in comparison with that of Conventional system of the
structure. The major conclusion made is that the Storey Displacement and Storey Drift values
are less in Diagrid systems as compared with the conventional framed structure. Badikala
Sravanth in [4] (2016) has made a study on a 4 unit apartment plan of 4 storey of which each
unit is made to get supported over a single column support and concluded that the structure with
single column support is found to be 20% more costly than that of regular multi column
structure and at the same time a single column structure can provide a free ground space &
improved architectural views. Dr.Gopisiddappa in [5] (2017) has given a report of study based
on the analysis of a 30mX30m plan with 30 storey using ETABS software. The important
conclusion of the work is that the structure responses of building without any lateral force
resisting system are very high when compared to that of diagrid building. In another recent
study on oblique columns in [6], Vivek Narayanan (2017) has used oblique columns to stiffen
the vertical frame of the high rise structure. The conclusionof the work is that structure with
oblique columns is more strong and can offer more resistance to horizontal forces when
compared to structure with vertical columns
The latest technology of “weak beam and strong column” is given more importance and
hence the columns in a seismic resistant structure play a vital role in assessing the overall
strength of the building against the effect of seismic forces. In this present work in order to
support the corner columns of a multistory structure, additional inclined column supports are
provided as per the methodology explained under the section 3. Inclined columns could be
called as oblique columns which are being used till now for aesthetics and architectural
requirements, are not vertical ones.
2. OBJECTIVE
The projected is initiated with the intention to study the effect of additional inclined columns
provided at the corner columns on structural seismic responses due to different number of
inclined columns being provided at different levels from plinth onward and at different angles
of inclination.
3. MODELLING AND ANALYSIS
An L- shaped 11 storey 3D model of a structure is created with commercial loading as per IS:
875-Part II. A cantilever slab projection is considered at every fourth floor of the structure as
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shown in the Fig.01. The overall 3D model called reference model is as shown in Fig.-02
without any additional inclined column supports and the pictures of different number of inclined
columns provided in the model from Plinth level are as shown in Fig.03. The overall 3D model
with additional inclined column supports at storey3 and Storey4 is as shown in Fig.-04. Etabs
software is used for the modeling and analysis of the project model. The structure is analyzed
for both Static as well as Dynamic analysis complying with the standard demands of IS 1893-
2002(Part II). Response Spectrum Analysis Method is adopted for the Dynamic analysis of the
structure. Inclined columns provided under different cases are as explained in Table-01.
Figure 1 Plan of the 3-D Model Figure 2 Reference Model
Figure 3 Showing 4, 2 & 1 additional Figure 4 Model with additional inclined
inclined column support column support at S3 & S4
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Table 1 Different Cases of Analysis
4. RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS
The results obtained for the different cases from S1 onwards are as shown in the Tables 02 &
03 and the corresponding graphs are as shown in Fig. 05 & 06 respectively for Maximum Storey
Displacement & Maximum Over turning Moment Values.
It is noticed in the results that all the values of Maximum Story Displacement of all the
cases are lesser than 142.86mm of the Reference Model. The highest value of the Maximum
Storey Drift obtained 0.003543 is less than the value of Maximum Storey Drift in the Reference
Model i.e., 0.00357. The lowest value of the Maximum Overturning Moment of the Table-03,
i.e., 23.196 is very much less than the value of Maximum Overturning Moment value i.e., 59.59
of Reference Model.
Table 2 Maximum Storey Displacement Values for Different Cases above Plinth for EL X
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Figure 5 Graph showing Variation of Maximum Storey Drift values the cases S1B, S1C, S2B, S3B &
S4B corresponding to the values of Table-09.
Table 3 Maximum Overturning Moment Values for Different Cases above Plinth Level for EL X
Figure 6 Graph showing Variation of Maximum Over Turning values for the cases S1B, S1C, S2B,
S3B & S4B corresponding to the values of Table-12.
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CONCLUSIONS
1. As per the results it is noticed that there is significant decrease in the overturning moments
of the structure due to introduction of inclined columns at Storey4 i.e., S4. Hence this system
of introducing inclined additional columns is more suitable for asymmetrical plans.
2. There is an increase in reduction of response values with increase in the levels of
connectivity of the additional columns i.e., the values of responses of case S1C are much
lesser than that of case PLC.
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