Comparison of building structure performance with masonry and without masonry

Abstract

In structural designing, commonly the brickwall is only considered as a gravity load acting on the beam. On the other words, the wall in the building structure is assumed as a non-structural component. In this paper, the structural performance of a three-story building with masonry and without masonry due to seismic loads will be analyzed using pushover analysis by using the ATC 40 standard. The modeling of the building uses SeismoStruct software and assumed that the building is located in the earthquake ground acceleration region in Padang, West Sumatra. Based on the results of the analysis, the performance level of the three-story building with masonry is different compared to the building without masonry. The building with masonry as a structural component shows a better performance than without. This explains that the presence of masonry can contribute to the strength of the structure in receiving lateral loads such as earthquakes.