Study of RC Framed Building in Different Siesmic Zones for Economic Consideration

Abstract

Abstract
In present scenario, the society is expecting to have optimum design with economic considerations. Cost of building, plays a very important role in construction. As the structural cost forms the major component of the building cost, there is need to evolve appropriate cost modeling techniques to project the structural cost at the early stages of the planning and design. Earthquake resistant design is very important factor that decides the variation in cost of construction. For different seismic zones, the construction techniques changes and also design of building changes. This paper deals with the variation of zones with respect to cost of a building according to different seismic zones applicability and importance of the structure. In the study, different models of same plan of a building are analyzed for different earthquake zones to study the variation in forces and cost of beams and columns. The building models were designed to estimate the cost as per the Indian standards. Comparison has been made to check the variation of cost in different earthquake zones. Our purpose of this study is to know the variation in material require for building in different earthquake zones. By the study, we know that the high percentage of reinforcement is required in higher seismic zones and cost of construction increases as we go from seismic zone III–zone V.

Key words: Seismic zones, earthquake, economy, RC buildings, cost