Design of Earthquake Resistant Structures
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The official GTU curriculum for Design of Earthquake Resistant Structures (subject code 2184010) as prescribed for Civil Infra · Semester 8 divides the course into 5 units, covering 60 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (2184010)Unit 1 Engineering Seismology
- Causes of Earthquakes and Seismic Waves
- Measurement of Earthquakes and Measurement parameters
- Influence of Nature of Soil on Intensity of Earthquake
- Response of structure
- Load Transfer Path and Elements
- features of earthquake resistant structure as per IS 1893 (Part I)
- IS: 875 (Part V) and prediction of earthquake loads (Seismic Coefficient Method)
- base shear
- distribution of loads along the height of building
- Capacity based design approach
- Performance based design approach
- Response reduction factors
Unit 2 Fundamentals of Earthquake Vibrations of buildings
- Kinetics and Kinematics
- Static load v/s Dynamic load (force control and displacement control)
- idealization of structures (SDOF & MDOF systems)
- mathematical modelling of buildings
- Dynamic Sr
- Topics Hrs. % Weightage Properties of building (natural frequency
- time period
- mode shapes and modal analysis
- resonance v/s increased response
- damped and un-damped vibration
- response of building to earthquake ground motion
- Response to multi degree (maximum three) of freedom systems
Unit 3 Earthquake Resistant Design of RC Buildings
- Lateral Loads on Buildings: Lateral Load Distribution (SDOF) Rigid diaphragm effect
- centers of mass and stiffness
- torsionally coupled and uncoupled system
- Lateral Load Analysis: Analysis of frames using approximate methods like portal & cantilever methods
- Design of RC buildings: Preliminary data
- loading data
- analysis of structural frames
- load combinations
- design of structural frames ( maximum of 4 storeys)
Unit 4 Ductile Detailing
- Impact of ductility
- Requirements for ductility
- Assessment of ductility– Member/element ductility
- Structural ductility
- Factor affecting ductility
- Ductility factors
- Concepts of Detailing of various structural components as per IS: 13920 provisions
Unit 5 Special Topics
- Base Isolation
- Confined Masonry
- Soil liquefaction
- Basics of soil structure interaction
- Seismic strengthening
- Structural Controls: Passive Structure control system
- Active structure control system
- semi active structure control system
- isolation systems and various dampers. 4 10 Course Learning Outcomes: After learning the course the students should be able to: 1
- Determine the response of SDOF & MDOF structural system subjected to vibration including earthquake. 2
- Apply the concept of Earthquake Resistant Design & concept of lateral load distribution on buildings. 3
- Determine the lateral forces generated in the structure due to earthquake. 4
- Apply the concept of ductile detailing in RC structures
- Term Work: Term work shall consist of laboratory works and following: 1
- At least 25 problems based on the syllabus of Earthquake engineering which are uniformly distributed & graded from each of the topic. 2
- Seminar/project assigned by the faculty member
- Design based Problems (DP)/Open Ended Problem: (This may be considered as a part of term work) 1
- Preparation of the canvas of site visit of real life structures to understand the irregularities and ductile detailing with Photographs. 2
- Model preparation to understand the behavior of structures under earthquake forces
- Texts Books: NIL
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