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Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2012 2:16 pmPost subject: Last floor column design |
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Dear Dr. Murthy,
We also notice in some cases in models without shear walls, that reinforcement in beams is higher in the lower floors and reduces in the upper floors. This happens also when there is no change in column sizes in the upper floors. What could this be due to. Kindly enlighten us.
Warm Regards Sriprakash
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On 02-Dec-2012, at 6:47 PM, "cvrm" forum@www.buonovino.com)> wrote:
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UPPER STOREY COLUMN DESIGN
The topic of upper storey columns is recieving significant attention during the eC. Adequate caution has been exercised by some of the participants. Many factors can contribute to the stress resultant 要求(例如,P, Vand M) and hence the design of the upper storey columns; this is experienced by designers as column reinforcement being much different from those in the lower storey columns. These factors include:
1. Column size changes:: When the column size is reduced in an upper storey, the cross-sectional area and moment of inertia change suddently. This increases the percentage of steel, and even the absolute amount of steel. It could have been lesser, if the column size in the lower storey was continued in the upper storey also.
2. Axial versus Bending Effects:: Columns in the storeys close to the bottom of the building undergo lesser bending, but sustain higher axial load. As one goes up along the height of the building, bending effects increase upto a certain 高度和最终减少;轴向载荷的增加es to the top of the building. Thus, in the upper storeys, the design point lies in the lower part of the P-M interaction diagram, and hence upper storey columns are expected to undergo ductile actions. But, in the lower storeys, the design point lies in the upper part of the P-M interaction diagram, and hence the lower storey columns behave in the brittle way. Columns in the intermediate storeys, have both P and M to be reasonably high, and hence their behvaiour is mixed.
3. Higher modes effects:: Tall buildings have high fundamental T, and their higher mode T is still high. Design earthquake spectra carry large energy corresponding to T of higher modes rather than the fundamental modes. Hence, in modal analysis, the share of higher modes tends to be larger. This effectively results in the columns of middle storeys receiving higher moment and axial demand, and the upper storey columns lesser.
4. Reduced gravity load :: By their mere position, the upper storey columns sustain lesser gravity load and hence the P-M interaction is diminishing to the top.
5. H/D of the building:: When the aspect ratio of the building is small, the building deforms laterally in shear-type cantilever mode; here, the upper storey columns do not see much inter-storey drift. The situation is the opposite when the building is slender; the building deforms laterally in flexure-type cantilever mode, and here the upper storey columns undergo larger inter-storey drift. More interstorey drift implies more bending of the upper storey columns.
6. Whip-lash effect:: Some buildings will see whip-lash effect at the upper storeys during earthquake shaking, that has large pulses (as in near field ground motion) and sudden reduction in column size in upper storeys. In such cases, the upper storey columns may experience more effects. Some codes reflect this through an additional concentrated design lateral force at the top storey. But, this is best noticed when time history analyses are performed.
In a tall building, some or all of the above factors may contribute to the structural behaviour of upper storey columns, depending on the structural configuration of the tall building and choice of locations of column size reduction in the design process. It would be difficult to ascribe reasons for reduced/increased longitudinal steel in upper storey columns to just one of these factors.
C.V.R.Murty
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shahnawaz.sdk SEFI Member

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Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2012 3:02 pmPost subject: Last floor column design |
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Hi
Even I have observed in most of the building up to 20 floors that the reinforcement requirements in beams increase from first floors to mid storey and then again reduces as we go to the last floors. Same happen with columns also. Expect columns at upper floor requires more steel then the second last floors.
I appreciate if somebody put some light on this phenomena.
Regards
Shahnawaz Siddiqui Integrated Buildings
On 02-Dec-2012, at 20:17, "sriprakash_shastry" forum@www.buonovino.com)> wrote:
[quote] Dear Dr. Murthy,
We also notice in some cases in models without shear walls, that reinforcement in beams is higher in the lower floors and reduces in the upper floors. This happens also when there is no change in column sizes in the upper floors. What could this be due to. Kindly enlighten us.
Warm Regards Sriprakash
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