Author : Ahmed Falah Hasan and Ban Ali Kamil

In this paper the effect of different types of bracing had been studied besides studying the effect of height of building. Two different height was studied the first one was a 6-story and 10-story. The studied types of bracing included the V, X, K, and none bracing building. The X bracing is the best type for resist high lateral load,. The building without bracing give maximum story drift and the building may be collapse due to unstability because the lateral load (wind load), the V-bracing give a little different from X-bracing with low cost and easy for construction from X-bracing, and the building is highest the X-bracing is the beast type for bracing.

Keywords: The effect of height, multi –story building, construction

Article published in International Journal of Current Engineering and Technology, Vol.8, No.1 (Jan/Feb 2018)