Comparitive Study of Rcc Framed Structure With and Without Floating Columns –Review

Document Type : Primary Research paper

Authors

1 Project Group Leader, B.E. Student, Department of Civil Engineering, Jagadambha college of Engineering and Technology Yavatmal, Maharashtra, India

2 Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Jagadambha college of Engineering and Technology Yavatmal, Maharashtra, India

3 B.E. Students, Department of Civil Engineering, Jagadambha college of Engineering and Technology Yavatmal, Maharashtra, India

Abstract

In present scenario, buildings with floating columns are of typical feature in the modern multistory construction practices in urban India. Such types of constructions are highly undesirable in building built in seismically active areas. This paper studies the analysis of a G+4 storey normal building and a G+4 storey-floating column building. The analysis is done using ETABS 2015. For analysis response spectrum method is used for a multistoried building with and without floating columns. Different cases of the building are studied by varying the location of floating columns floor wise and within the floor. The structural response of the building models with respect to Fundamental time period, Spectral acceleration, Base shear, Storey drift and Storey displacements is investigated. This study is to find whether the structure is safe or unsafe with floating column when built in seismically active areas and to find floating column building is economical or uneconomical.