03-11-2014, 11:54 AM
Abstracts: A number of earthquake occurred in and around the India over the past century. Some of them occurred in dense populated area thus causes the great damage. Behaviour of RC building during the earthquake depend upon the number of factors like architectural features, structural design, location of building, soil condition etc. Many of the RC building constructed with bottom storey left open for the purpose of parking, such type of building subjected to more damaged during the earthquake. Such type of buildings can be strengthening by providing the vertical plate like wall called as a shear wall. Properly designed and detailed shear wall have a very good performance during the earthquake. However it is interesting to know shear wall constructed with different materials behaves differently. It demonstrate the behaviour of concrete and steel shear wall by using the software ETABS and it was observed that though the weight of shear wall kept constant in both the cases ductility of steel shear wall building is more than the concrete shear wall building. Hence in order to overcome this problem construction process should be quick, tall and effective to accommodate huge population in a given area. So we have chosen this topic of “DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF SHEAR WALLS”. This type of shear wall construction helps to build tall structure of about 20 floors within no time. Hence the construction process will become much quicker and efficient.Constructions made of shear walls are high in strength ,they majorly resist the seismic force, wind forces and even can be build on soils of weak bases by adopting various ground improvement techniques. Not only the quickness in construction process but the strength parameters and effectiveness to bare horizontal loads is very high. Shear walls generally used in high earth quake prone areas, as they are highly efficient in taking the loads. Not only the earth quake loads but also winds loads which are quite high in some zones can be taken by these shear walls efficiently and effectively.Though these types of constructions have their origin in western nations in early 90’s, this ideology has changed rapidly and spread all over the world with in no time. The form work used in this type of construction is of a new kind in Indian construction scenario.