Analysis of various thicknesses of Shear Wall with Opening and without Opening and their Percentage Reinforcement

Abstract

Due to increase in population spacing in India is needed, especially in urban areas. Structural engineers in the seismic regions across the world often face the pressure to design high rise buildings with stiffness irregularities, even though they know these buildings are vulnerable under seismic loading. Today’s tall buildings are becoming more and more slender, leading to the possibility of more sway in comparison with earlier high rise buildings. Improving the structural systems of tall buildings can control their dynamic response. With more appropriate structural forms such as shear walls and improved material properties. Lateral forces of wind and earthquake are usually resisted by shear walls which are parallel to the direction of lateral load. These shear walls, by their shearing resistance and resistance to overturning, transfer the lateral loads to the foundation. In the seismic design of buildings, reinforced concrete structural walls, or shear walls, act as major earthquake resisting members. The properties of these seismic shear walls dominate the response of the buildings, and therefore, it is important to evaluate the seismic response of the walls appropriately. A shear wall may contain many openings due to the functional requirements such as doors and windows, which may largely affect the overall seismic response of the structure. An earthquake load is applied to a building of ten stories located in zone V. In this present study, main focus is to determine effectiveness of shear wall with various thicknesses, and also vertical opening, staggered opening and without opening has been studied with the help of different models and also analysis and observe the behaviour of shear wall with and without openings in shear wall under seismic loads.