Author : A.P. Mundada and S.G. Sawdatkar

Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including works like roads, bridges, canals, dams, and buildings. Structural engineering is a part of civil engineering dealing with the analysis and design of structures that support or resist loads. This paper deals with the study of architectural drawing and the framing drawing of the building having floating columns. Existing residential building comprising of G+ 7 structures has been selected for carrying out the project work. The load distribution on the floating columns and the various effects due to it is also been studied in the paper. The importance and effects due to line of action of force is also studied. In this paper we are dealing with the comparative study of seismic analysis of multi-storied building with and without floating columns. The equivalent static analysis is carried out on the entire project mathematical 3D model using the software STAAD Pro V8i and the comparison of these models are been presented. This will help us to find the various analytical properties of the structure and we may also have a very systematic and economical design for the structure.

Keywords: Floating Column, STAAD-PRO, RCC frame, Column Shear

Article published in International Journal of Current Engineering and Technology, Vol.4, No.5 (Oct-2014)