Design of High rise structures
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Design of High rise structures Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Design of High rise structures (subject code 3722018) as prescribed for C(E · Semester 2 divides the course into 5 units, covering 66 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 (3722018)Unit 1 Design of transmission/ TV tower, Mast and trestles
- bracing system
- analysis and design for vertical transverse and longitudinal loads
Unit 2 Analysis and Design of RC and Steel Chimney, Foundation
- design for varied soil strata. 8 20
Unit 3 Tall Buildings
- Introduction: Why Tall Buildings
- Factors affecting growth
- Height and structural form
- Design philosophy Design Criteria: 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
- Impact gravity loading
- Construction loading. b
- Wind loading:- Static loading
- Dynamic loading. c
- Earthquake loading:-Equivalent lateral force procedure
- Modal analysis procedure. d
- Combination of loading:-Working stress design
- Limit Sate design
- Structural Form: Braced frame structures
- Rigid Frame structures
- In filled-Frame structures
- Flat plate- Flat slab structures
- Shear wall structures
- Subject Code: 3722018 w.e.f
- AY 2018-19 Wall frame structures
- Framed tube structures
- Suspended structures
Unit 4 Application of software in analysis and design
- Approaches to analysis:-Preliminary analyses
- Intermediate and final analysis
- Assumptions:- Materials
- Participating components
- Floor slabs
- Negligible stiffness
- Negligible deformations
- High-Rise Behavior
- Modeling for Approximate analyses:- Approximate Representation Bents
- Approximate modeling of slabs
- Modeling for continuum analyses
- Modeling for Accurate analyses:-Plane frames
- Plane shear walls
- Three dimensional frame and wall structures
- P-Delta effects
- The assembled model
- Braced Frames: Types of bracings
- Behavior of bracings
- Behavior of bracing bents
- Methods of analysis:-member force analysis
- Drift analysis
- Worked example for calculating drift by approximate methods
- use large scale bracing
Unit 5 Dynamic Analysis
- Dynamic Response to Wind Loading:-Sensivity of structures wind forces
- Dynamic structural response due to wind forces
- Along wind response
- Cross wind response
- worked examples
- Dynamic response to Earthquake motions:-Response of Tall buildings to ground accelerations
- response spectrum analysis
- Empirical relations for fundamental natural frequency
- Structural damping ratios Comfort criteria: Human perception of building motion
- Perception thresholds
- Use of comfort criteria in design
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