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Karnataka, India.
3Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Maharaja Institute of Technology Mysore,
Karnataka, India.
4M.Tech. student, Department of Civil Engineering, P.E.S. College of Engineering Mandya,
Karnataka, India.
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Abstract - Nowadays, as in the urban areas the space earthquake, the damage in a structure generally initiates at
available for the construction of buildings is limited. So in location of the structural weakness present in the building
limited space we have to construct such type of buildings systems. These weaknesses trigger further structural
which can be used for multiple purposes such as lobbies, car deterioration which leads to the structural collapse which is
parking etc. To fulfill this demand, buildings with due to geometry, mass discontinuity and stiffness of
irregularities is the only option available. During an structure. The structures having this discontinuity are
earthquake, failure of structure starts at points of weakness. known as Irregular structures. These structures constitute a
This weakness arises due to discontinuity in mass, stiffness and large portion of the modern urban infrastructure. Vertical
geometry of structure. Vertical irregularities are one of the irregularities are one of the major reasons of failures of
major reasons of failures of structures during earthquakes. A structures during earthquakes.
performance based seismic analysis can be used for various
purposes such as assessment of large structures, design 1.1 Vertical Irregularity
verification of new construction, evaluation of an existing
structure to identify damage states for various amplitudes of Vertical irregularity results from the uneven distribution of
ground motions. mass, strength or stiffness along the elevation of a building
structure. Mass irregularity results from a sudden change in
In this work the building with vertical irregularities like mass between adjacent floors, such as mechanical plant on
mass irregularity and mass & stiffness irregularity are the roof of a structure. Stiffness irregularity results from a
considered by modeling the roof diaphragm as rigid and semi sudden change in stiffness between adjacent floors, such as
rigid. The analysis of the building is done by using ETABS 2015 setbacks in the elevation of a building.
software by considering the static nonlinear analysis called Types of Vertical Irregularities
pushover analysis. So from the results it can be concluded that
when building becomes more and more vertically irregular Stiffness Irregularity- Soft Storey-A soft storey is
(mass irregular and mass & stiffness irregular), the lateral one in which the lateral stiffness is less than
displacement is lower at base and goes on increasing towards 70percent of the storey above or less than 80
top. For mass regular and mass & stiffness regular building percent of the average lateral stiffness of the three
have less lateral displacement compared to mass irregular and storeys above.
mass & stiffness irregular building. From pushover curve it Stiffness Irregularity-Extreme Soft Storey-An
can be observed that the model with semi rigid diaphragm extreme soft storey is one in which the lateral
possesses lower monitored displacement and base shear stiffness is less than 60percent of that in the storey
compared to rigid diaphragm. above or less than 70 percent of the average
stiffness of the three storeys above. It is as shown
Keywords: Mass irregularity, Mass & stiffness in Fig.1.
irregularity, Roof diaphragm, Rigid, Semi rigid, Pushover
analysis, ETABS 2015.
1. INTRODUCTION
Roof 2.5 kN/m2 3.1. Mass Regular and Mass Irregular Building
Floor 3.5 kN/m2
Earthquake live load on slab as per clause 7.3.1 3.1.1 Lateral Displacement
and 7.3.2 of IS: 1893(Part-1) 2002
Roof Nil
Floor 0.5 x 3kN/m2
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Chart-4: Pushover curve - mass regular (rigid), push Y Chart-7: Pushover curve - mass irregular (rigid), push X
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5. REFERENCES
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