Comparative Study of the Effects of Earthquake and Wind Loads on High-Rise Buildings

The importance of earthquake engineering and wind engineering is emerging in India ever since the need for more taller buildings. Considering the ever increasing population as well as limited space, horizontal expansion is no more a feasible solution especially in metro cities. There is number of technology to build super-tall and super slender buildings today, but in India we are yet to come up with the technology which is already established in other parts of the world. Analysis of high rise building structures subjected to earthquake acceleration is often a complex task. This study addresses the performance of high rise reinforced concrete building with the Comparison on the effect of earthquake and wind loads. A computer program E-TAB is used to analyze the structural buildings behaviour under wind pressure defined as well as equivalent static loads for earthquakes considering all factors in the IS 456:2000, IS 1893:2002 & IS 875:1987 (part3). Estimation of Wind load will be studied with the gust factor method, as it is more precise. This paper describes mathematical study and relation between wind and earthquake and its effects on building as a whole with respect of moment and shear force.