A REVIEW ON POST TENSIONING METHOD ON A BUILDING FRAME CONSIDERING SEISMIC LOAD AS PER I.S. 1893-I : 2002

In high rise buildings, there are several lateral load resisting systems. The horizontal loads and gravity loads can be resisted by them, as they have very high in plane stiffness and strength. This makes these systems to be quite advantageous in many structural engineering applications. Many literatures are available which deals with the design and analysis of resisting systems. In this paper, the main focus is to carry out extensive literature survey and to determine the scope of work regarding Post tensioning method in analysis and design of a building frame. From the literature it is clear that Post tensioning members and other systems are effective in resisting lateral load which helps the building to sustain even under seismic loads. However, the scope of study is to investigate the effect of introducing post tensioning members in a building under lateral forces.