A comparative study on the response of the L-shaped base isolated multi-storey building to near and far field earthquake ground motion

Abstract

This study aims to understand the behaviour of a base isolated l-shaped building under far field and near field earthquake ground motion. A ten-storey l-shaped building was considered for the study and modelled using SAP2000, which is finite-element-based software. At first, a non-isolated model was created, and the required data was generated in order to develop an isolated model. After that, a non-linear time history analysis was performed, and the results of storey displacement, torsional irregularity, and base shear have been discussed for the base isolated model and the non-isolated model. The fundamental time period of base isolated l-shaped building was found to be 2.56 s while the base model had fundamental time period of 0.88 s. It was found in this study that higher peak ground acceleration (PGA) and peak ground velocity (PGV) of the ground motion led to higher storey displacement, storey drift, and base shear but a lower torsional irregularity ratio under near field ground motion, while torsional irregularity ratio of base isolated building was found to be increased under far field ground motion.

Keywords

• Irregular buildings
• Base isolation
• Torsional irregularity
• Time history analysis