THE EFFECT OF BRACING AND SHEAR WALLS ON R.C. MULTISTORY BUILDING WITH/WITHOUT FLOATING COLUMN SUBJECTED TO SEISMIC LOADS

These days many buildings with floating column are being constructed in order to have wider spaces, but these kinds of buildings are not considered to be safe in seismic prone areas. This paper investigates buildings with/without floating columns that is strengthened by shear wall and bracing system. An analysis was made to a G+10 building with and without floating column under seismic loads, and then the same building was compared when the shear wall and the bracing systems were added. Different parameters were studied using linear spectrum method such as the story drift, displacement, time period and columns shear forces. The analysis and modeling were made using ETABS program v18.1