Abstract :

Shear wall systems are one of the most commonly used lateral load resisting systems in high-rise buildings. Shear walls have very high in plane stiffness and strength, which can be used to simultaneously resist large horizontal loads and support gravity loads, making them quite advantageous in many structural engineering applications. There are lots of literatures available to design and analyze the shear wall. However, the decision about the location of shear wall in multi-storey building is not much discussed in any literatures. In this paper, therefore, main focus is to determine the solution for shear wall location in multi-storey building. In this study, a G+ 10 storeyed reinforced concrete (RC) building with varying ground slope as 0º, 5º, 10º, 15º and 20º without shear walls and incorporating shear walls symmetrically in plan and at peripheral corners have been considered for the analysis. Buildings are designed as per IS 456:2000 and later subjected to earthquake loads. Th