Design of High-Rise Building Structures
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The official GTU curriculum for Design of High-Rise Building Structures (subject code ME02000211) as prescribed for C(E · Semester 2 divides the course into 4 units, covering 85 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 (ME02000211)Unit 1 Essentials of Tall Buildings 11 25
- Introduction: Need of Tall Buildings
- Factors affecting growth
- Height and structural form
- Design Criteria: Design philosophy
- Codal provisions for Loading
- Sequential loading
- Strength and Stability
- Stiffness and drift limitations
- Human Comfort criteria
- Shrinkage and temperature effects
- Foundation settlement and soil structure interaction
- Loading On Tall Structures: a
- Gravity loading:-Methods of live load reduction
- Impactgravity loading
- Construction loading. b
- Wind loading:- Static loading
- Dynamic loading. c
- Earthquake loading:-Equivalent lateral force procedure
- Modal analysis procedure. d
- Combination of loading:- Limit Satedesign
- Structural Form: Braced frame structures
- Rigid Frame structures
- Infilled- Framestructures
- Flat plate- Flat slab structures
- Shear wall structures
- Wall frame structures
- Framed tube structures
- Outrigger- Braced Structures
- Suspended structures
- Core Structures
- Space Structures
- Hybrid Structures
- Different Floor systems
Unit 2 Modeling Approaches for Analysis of Tall Buildings 16 40
- Approaches to analysis:Preliminary analyses
- Intermediate andfinal analysis
- Hybrid Approach to Preliminary and Final Analyses
- Assumptions: Materials
- Participating components
- Floor slabs
- Negligible stiffness
- Negligible deformations
- High- RiseBehavior
- Modeling for Approximate analyses: ApproximateRepresentation Bents
- Approximate modeling of slabs
- Modeling forcontinuum analyses
- Programme Name: Master of Engineering Level: PG Subject Code : ME02000211 Course / Subject Name: Design of High-Rise Building Structures Modeling for Accurate analyses:Plane frames
- Plane shear walls
- Three-dimensional frame and wall structures
- P-Delta effects
- Theassembled model
- Reduction Techniques
- Modeling and Analysis of Braced Frames
- Rigid-Frame Structures
- lnfilled-Frame Structures
- Shear Wall Structures
- Coupled Shear Wall Structures
- Wall-Frame Structures
Unit 3 Stability Calculations and Dynamic Analysis 11 25
- Stability of Tall Buildings:Overall Buckling Analysis
- Second-Order Effect
- Simultaneous First-Order and P-Delta Analysis
- Translational- Torsional Instability
- Out-of-Plumb Effects
- Stiffness of Members in Stability Calculations
- Effects of Foundation Rotation
- Dynamic Response to Wind Loading: Sensivity of structures windforces
- Dynamic structural response due to wind forces
- Along windresponse
- Cross wind response
- worked examples
- Dynamic response to Earthquake motions:Response of Tallbuildings to ground accelerations
- response spectrum analysis
- Time-History Analysis
- Empirical relationships for fundamental natural frequency
- Structuraldamping ratios
- Comfort criteria: Human perception of building motion
- Perception thresholds
- Use of comfort criteria in design Consideration of Time-dependent Effects – Creep
- Shrinkage and Temperature in Analysis
Unit 4 Overview of Performance-Based Seismic Design of Buildings 07 10
- Introduction to performance-based design approach
- Overview of Non- Linear Seismic Analysis procedures
- Non-Linear Static and Dynamic Analysis – PO Analysis and Non-linear Time History Analysis
- Demand Curve and Capacity Curve
- Performance Evaluation of Individual Components
- Structural Performance
- Presentation of Results of Performance-based Seismic Evaluation
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