Analytical Structural Health Monitoring of Shear Wall Building

Abstract

Abstract: Structural health monitoring techniques have been utilized to inspect the current conditions of structures, as well as their post-earthquake performances. The dynamic characteristics of a building, such as modal periods, shapes and damping ratios can be obtained by analysing the ambient vibration data. It is well-known that dynamic characteristics generated from the finite element model (FEM) and vibration data, even for the intact building, show remarkable differences. Assumptions made in the FEM are one of the main reasons for those differences. To examine feasible solutions to such problems mentioned above Here an attempt has been made to study the behaviour of different structures of reinforced concrete with different heights with and without shear walls. Coupled shear walls have also been studied to understand the comparative merit or demerit of framed structures with shear wall structures. Studies have been carried out on sample model structures and analysis has been carried out by ETABS software. It has been ensured to consider sample models that represent the current practices in structural design to include different structural configurations. Models having varied structural configurations like framed, shear wall, coupled shear wall, central core shear wall, core in core etc. have been taken into consideration. The inherent asymmetry present in the structures have also been dealt. Natural frequencies and mode shapes of the structure were determined by frequency domain decomposition method. In addition, identification of damping was performed due to the fact that damping ratio plays a significant role in the magnitude of inter-story drift during an earthquake. The FEM of the structure was constructed based on design drawings and updated to represent the real mode shapes and frequencies of the structure. By using the updated FEM with standard damping ratio in Indian Earthquake Code and the identified damping ratio, seismic performance assessment of the building for a possible earthquake.