SEISMIC DESIGN OF HIGH

RISE BUILDINGS
Lesson : 4
Code Based Design of Reinforced
Concrete High Rise Buildings
MTYANA, H.J
PhD. Structural Engineering - on progress

Ass. Lecturer
Dept. of Structural and Construction Engineering
College of Engineering and Technology
University of Dar es salaam, Tanzania
Email: hjmtyana@gmail.com
Cell Phone: +255 (0) 655 004212
 LECTURE 4-1

ETABS 2017
Analysis and Design Software
APPLICATION PROCEDURES FOR
DESIGN OF REINFORCED
CONCRETE FRAMED - SHEAR WALL
HIGH RISE BUILDING SYSTEM
 General Overview on ETABS 2016
• ETABS is a sophisticated,
yet easy to use, special
purpose analysis and
design program developed
specifically for building
systems.
• Dates back more than 40
years
• Although quick and easy for
simple structures, ETABS
can also handle the largest
and most complex building
models, including a wide
range of nonlinear
behaviors necessary for
performance based design.
 What ETABS Can Do!

With ETABS we can analyze design (and detail):

• Multi-story commercial, government and health care
facilities
• Parking garages with circular and linear ramps
• Buildings with curved beams, walls and floor edges
• Buildings with steel, concrete, composite or joist floor
framing
• Projects with multiple towers
• Complex shear walls and cores with arbitrary openings
 What ETABS Can Do!
• Performance based design utilizing nonlinear
dynamic analyses
• Buildings based on multiple rectangular and/or
cylindrical grid systems
• Flat and waffle slab concrete buildings
• Buildings subjected to any number of vertical and
lateral load cases and combinations, including
automated wind and seismic loads

And much, much more!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 Step 1: Creation of New
Project
1. Creating a new file
2. Selecting units and design codes
Creating a new file
Step 2: Structural Modeling

 Entering grid and story data

 Defining and assigning beam
 Defining and assigning columns
 Defining and assigning slabs
 Adding and replicating new stories
 Defining and assigning shear walls
 Entering grid and story data

Case Study
Design of 7-Story Framed-Shear Wall Building
Prepare the entire plan on a sheet of paper with
grid lines in advance

Y-Grid Coordinates
Point Y – coord.
5 15.00
4 13.6
3 10.00
2 5.00
1 0.00
 X-Grid Coordinates
Pt A B C D E F G H I J K L

X- 0.00 3.00 8.00 13.0 16.6 18.0 23.0 24.4 28.0 33.0 38.0 41.0
cord
Entering grid and story data
1
2 4

3 5

8
Entering grid data
Entering story data
Adding new stories
Editing story data
 Outcomes:
Model explorer, Plan view and 3-D View
 Defining materials
• On the top menu bar:
Define material properties
Define section properties
Assigning columns and beams
Assigning columns
Defining and assigning Shear Walls
 Detailing for local ductility
cl. 5.4.3.4.2 of Eurocode 8.1:2004
Determine dimension of confined boundary element

• Story height , hs = 3500mm

• Proposed shear wall size, bwo = 250mm
• Max. length of shear wall, lw = 5000mm
• Min. length of confined boundary element, lc

𝑙𝑐 ≥ 0.15𝑙𝑤 = 0.15𝑥5000 = 750𝑚𝑚

or
𝑙𝑐 ≥ 1.5𝑏𝑤 = 1.5𝑥250 = 375𝑚𝑚

Thus take lc = 750mm

 Defining and assigning slabs
• Change story 1 to be master story and all upper
stories to be similar to story 1.
• GF not to be similar to other stories in this context
Determine dimension of confined boundary element

• Min. width of confined boundary element, bw

Since 𝑙𝑐 = 750𝑚𝑚 > 2𝑏𝑤𝑜 = 2𝑥250 = 500𝑚𝑚

but less than 0.2𝑙𝑤 = 0.2𝑥5000 = 1000𝑚𝑚
then;
ℎ𝑠 3500
𝑏𝑤 = ≥ = 233𝑚𝑚
15 15

As the proposed bwo(250mm) > bw(233mm)

Take bw = bwo = 250mm

Assigning shear walls
Draw openings in shear walls
Showing rendered view
Showing rendered view
Step 3: Assigning Loads and
Meshing of Slab

 Assigning dead, superdead and live loads

 Assigning masonry loads
 Meshing of slabs
Assigning dead, superdead and live loads
Selected all slab panels to be loaded
Assigning dead loads
On plan view, magnitudes of assigned slab
load will be displayed
Clearing magnitudes of assigned loads on slab panels

A B
 Assigning Point Loads (short zone loads)

• Assume 5,000 litre water tanks will be installed on

slab panels namely, A and B at the top story (one tank
on each slab panel). (……… refer previous slide)

• Total load on each panel:

5000
= 5 𝑡𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑠 = 50𝑘𝑁
100

Load on each support (assuming equal load distribution)

50𝑘𝑁
= 12.5𝑘𝑁
4
Select the top story active on plan view and set single story on bottom tool bar
Select the top story active on plan view and set single story on bottom tool bar
On plan view of the top story select joints to be loaded with point loads

-ve = downward direction

To see assigned loads, select 3D view window
 Assigning live loads on slabs
• Select the Story 1 story on plan view and set similar stories on
bottom tool bar
• On plan view, select slab panels to be loaded
On plan view, magnitudes of assigned slab
load will be displayed
 Assigning wall (masonry) loads
• Select the Story 1 story on plan view and set similar stories on
bottom tool bar
• On plan view, select beams to be loaded by masonry walls
On plan view, magnitudes of assigned masonry
load will be displayed
 Meshing of slabs

Purpose
• To ensure realistic load distribution on slabs

Methods
• Manual meshing
• Automatic meshing

In this tutorial we shall apply Manual Meshing

Manual meshing of slabs
Pattern of meshed slab will be displayed on plan view
Automatic meshing
of slabs
Automatically meshed slabs
Step 4: Assigning Seismic Load
and Load Combinations

 Assigning seismic loads

 Defining load combinations
Assigning seismic loads
Assigning seismic data