ANALYSIS OF WIND LOADING ON MULTISTOREY STRUCTURE

Christian Zimmerman Daniel Brand Mohamad Jamal Monzer Moutasallem

INTRODUCTION

24 Storey Building

50m by 50m

6m by 6m Centrally Located Shear Wall

 Monzer and I (Mohamad) Theory

Daniel Method Christian Discussion of Results

WIND

+ Positive Pressure +

- Negative Pressure -

Shear Wall

Distortion and Grading in strand7

METHOD

Step 1: Create initial nodes and elements for column

Step 2: Copy columns by increment

6.25m

12.5m

12.5m

12.5m

6.25m

12.5m

Step 3: Connect columns with plate elements

Step 4: Copy rows by increment

6.25m

12.5m

12.5m

12.5m

6.25m

Step 5: Copy rows to create grid

Step 6: Remove corner column and delete exterior plate element

Step 7: Create floor slab mesh with Quad4

Step 8: Subdivide floor slab and beam mesh

Step 9: Delete slab mesh in location of shear core

Step 10: Create beam element on the interior perimeter of shear core

Step 11: Extrude beam by increment

Step 12: Subdivide shear core

Step 13: Extrude column nodes by increment

Step 14: Add restraints at the base of column dx, dy, dz and rz (torsion) to simulate a pin joint

Step 15: Define material properties & geometry

Step 16: Create load cases and add gravity

Step 17: Add live load

Step 18: Run linear static solver to determine if model is working and if reasonable results

Step 19: Remove restraints, copy levels and add restrains on bottom and test

Step 20: Add wind load and test

Wind = -(z+4)*(12.5)*(1.2/24)

Step 21: Create raft mesh by Quad4, extrude by increment and define material property

Step 22: Remove column restraints, add raft restraints and test

Step 23: Create soil mesh by Quad4, extrude by increment and define material property

Step 24: Remove raft restraints, add soil restraints and test

Step 25: Create 24 floors, update wind load as well as raft depth and refined soil and raft mesh further into 3x3x3

RESULTS & DISCUSSION

Gravity Load
Soil settlement due to self weight Differential displacement relative to initial position Small displacement in shear core due to interior beams carrying load

Live Load
Similar loading pattern within structure to gravity case No soil settlement beyond raft slab as live load

Wind Load
No soil settlement as with live load
Key consideration is now x displacement

Wind Load
Both uplift and settlement occurring in both raft and floor slabs No soil cohesion results in raft slab lifting independently Shear Core acting like Cantilever

Combination Load
Gravity and live loads overcome uplift due to wind loading (no +ve plate displacement) Soil settlement dependent on gravity loading hence similar results (brick displacement) Horizontal displacement only dependent on wind loading hence similar results

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