Comparative Study of Seismic Behavior of Flat Slab and Conventional RC Framed Structure

Abstract

In present era, flat slab buildings are commonly used for the construction as it has many advantages over conventional RC frame building in terms of architectural flexibility, use of space, easier formwork and shorter construction time. In the present work a G+5, G+8 and G+11 multistoried building having flat slab with drop, flat slab without drop and conventional slab has been analyzed using ETABS software for the parameters like storey displacement, storey drift, storey shear, base shear and time period. The main objective of the present work is to compare the seismic behavior of multi storey buildings having conventional RC frame, flat slab with drop and flat slab without drop in seismic zone III with type II medium soil and to study the effect of height of building on the performance of these types of buildings under seismic forces. Linear dynamic response spectrum analysis was performed on the structure to get the seismic behavior.