| dc.description.abstract | Modern residential buildings have efficient structural systems, and utilize high
strength materials, resulting in reduced building height, and thus, become
slenderer and more flexible with low damping. These flexible buildings are very
sensitive to wind excitation and earthquake load causing discomfort to the
building occupants. Therefore, in order to mitigate such an excitation and to
improve the performance of tall buildings against wind loads and earthquake
loads, many researches and studies have been performed. Early integration of
aerodynamic shaping, wind engineering considerations, and structural system
selections play a major role in the architectural design of a residential building in
order to mitigate the building response to the wind excitations. A residential
building, whose shape is unsuitable, often requires a great deal of steel or a special
damping mechanism to reduce its dynamic displacement within the limits of the
criterion level for the design wind speed. Understandably, an appropriate choice
of building shape and architectural modifications are also extremely important
and effective design approaches to reduce wind and earthquake induced motion
by altering the flow pattern around the building, hence for this research work four
different shaped buildings are generally studied namely Rectangular.To achieve
these purposes, firstly, a literature survey, which includes the definition, design
parameters, and lateral load considerations of residential buildings, is presented.
Then the results are interpreted for different shaped buildings and of different
stories thereby concluding as to which shaped residential building is most stable
for different conditions.
Keywords: Residential Building, Wind load Effect, Earthquake load. | en_US |
