Effect of Seismic Soil Pile Interaction on RCC Building Frame Resting on a Group of Pile Foundations

  • Unique Paper ID: 182749
  • Volume: 12
  • Issue: 2
  • PageNo: 3115-3125
  • Abstract:
  • India has been experiencing a huge number of hazards through various natural phenomena like floods, droughts, Hurricanes, Tsunamis, fires and Earthquakes with considerable infrastructures and casualty losses all over. In earthquakes the structural collapse occurs due to the insufficient or incorrect analysis and design techniques. In general, the design procedures of the foundations depend upon the load induced by the superstructure, local site parameters and the earthquake zones. In a conventional analysis of any civil engineering structure, the superstructure is usually analyzed by treating it as independent from the foundation and soil medium, assuming no interaction occurs. This usually means that providing fixity at the structural support analyst simplifies soil behavior, while the geotechnical engineer neglects structural behavior by considering only the foundation while designing. When a structure is built on soil, some of the elements of the structure are in direct contact with the soil. When the loads are applied to the system, internal forces are developed in both the superstructure and as well as in soil. This results in deformations of both the components (structure and soil), which must be compatible at the interface as they cannot be independent. The original ground acceleration time history data from the Bhuj earthquake, located in Seismic Zone V (Gujarat), is used for analysis. A 10-storey space frame structure with a total height of 30 meters is evaluated using the response spectrum method, focusing on the peak values from the time history data. The soil-structure interaction is modeled in SOLIDWORKS 2019, while the seismic analysis is carried out in ANSYS 18.1. Key response parameters calculated include lateral displacements in the X and Y directions, vertical displacement (Z), pile settlement, displacement at the pile tip, maximum shear stress, and inter-storey drift.

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  • ISSN: 2349-6002
  • Volume: 12
  • Issue: 2
  • PageNo: 3115-3125

Effect of Seismic Soil Pile Interaction on RCC Building Frame Resting on a Group of Pile Foundations

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