STRUCTURAL CONFIGURATION OPTIMIZATION OF A MULTISTOREY BUILDING BY OPTIMUM POSITIONING OF SHEAR WALL

The shear wall is a structural element which is use d to resist earthquake forces. These wall will consumptives shear forces & will prevent changing location-position of construction & consequently destruction. On other hand, shear wall arrangement must be absolutely accurate, if not, we will find negative effect instead. For example if the shear walls make an increase distance between mass centre and hardness centre, we cannot expect a good tensional behavior from the structure. In case of mass centre and hardness cent re coincide with each other, at that time the distance of shear wall from the mass centre also plays an important role in the shear contribution of the shear wall.