An approximation method for design applications related to sway in RC framed buildings

2015-09-01
TEKELİ, Hamide
Atimtay, E.
TÜRKMEN, Mustafa
In this paper, an approximate method is proposed for determining sway of multistory RC buildings subjected to various types of lateral loads. The calculation of both fundamental period and stability index in RC building requires the sway term at each story level. Using approximate method design engineers can estimate sway terms at each story level. The developed analytical expressions are inserted into fundamental period and stability index equations to replace the sway terms, which yields modified equations for fundamental period and stability index without any sway terms. It is fairly easier to employ these equations developed by eliminating all sway terms. Results obtained from the equations are remarkably close to those generated by the related computer program. Consequently, design engineers can reliably use the simple equations to calculate stability index and fundamental period, which enables the determination of these parameters without referring to the complex sway terms. The capability and accuracy of the proposed equations are demonstrated by a numerical example in which computer program results are compared with the proposed methodology.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CIVIL ENGINEERING

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Citation Formats
H. TEKELİ, E. Atimtay, and M. TÜRKMEN, “An approximation method for design applications related to sway in RC framed buildings,” INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CIVIL ENGINEERING, pp. 321–330, 2015, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/67067.