International Research Journal of Education and Technology

Reinforced Concrete Frames are the most widely accepted building construction techniques in India. Along with an economic boom, increasing urbanization and scarcity of land and agriculture space driving up land costs and also increasing demand for agriculture space, tall structures that spread have emerged highly favored in the Indian buildings market especially in metropolitan areas. While a high rise construction presents both gravity load as well as lateral loads on a building. Many critical Indian cities fall in high risk seismic zones, thus the buildings have to be strengthened for lateral forces.

In the present study, an attempt is being made to investigate the response of a high-rise structure to the ground motion by using Response Spectrum Analysis. Here, three different models are considered - bare frame, brace frame and shear wall frame in Staad Pro. and change in the time period, stiffness, base shear, storey drifts and top-storey deflection of the building is observed and compared.

KEY WORDS: High-Rise Structures, Seismic Zones, Spectrum Analysis, Staad Pro