Effect of Floating Column on RCC Building With and Without Infill Wall Subjected Seismic Force
Keywords:
floating column, hanging column, performance point, Seismic Behavior, Lateral Displacement, Storey DriftAbstract
In recent times, multi-storey buildings in urban cities are required to have column free space due to
shortage of space, population and also for aesthetic and functional requirements. For this buildings are provided with
floating columns at one or more storey. These floating columns are highly disadvantageous in a building built in
seismically active areas. The earthquake forces that are developed at different floor levels in a building need to be
carried down along the height to the ground by the shortest path. Deviation or discontinuity in this load transfer path
results in poor performance of the building. The object of the present work is to study the behaviour of G+3 buildings
having floating columns. However recent studies based on floating columns, which mostly concentrated on higher
seismic zones and very few works is available for lower seismic zones Also to obtain the effects of mass variations and
infill walls on behaviour of normal and floating column building.
