Comparative Study of Different Bracing Systems for Irregular High Rise Steel Structure

The civil Engineering industry particularly in India has taken a new mode in construction of high rise structures. High rise structures became a need and new trend to accommodate the people’s requirements. As steel structures can be fabricated and erected in no-time compared to R.C.C structures, modern technologies and construction industries are focusing towards the construction of high rise structures using steel. In designing the high rise structures, the effect of lateral loads like wind and earthquake forces are attaining increasing importance and stability against lateral loads because of high height of buildings. For this reason in0recent years wind and earthquake loads have become0determining factors in designing tall structures To attain the resistance against these lateral loads, bracing system is used with different patterns. Bracing system are such structural system which0form an integral part0of frame. The structure has to0be analysed before0arriving the best type0or effective arrangement0of bracing. A 20 storied, irregular 3D framed structure with 3m each story depth is selected for the present study. The columns and beams are designed0to withstand dead load and live load0adequately. The bracings are designed to withstand against lateral load coming in that particular stories. For better results, the various forms of bracing systems are analysed using STAAD Pro software. An attempt has been made to study the behaviour of high rise steel structures for lateral loads by considering Knee and Y bracing systems and also for other bracing systems like X brace, V brace and combination of X and Y braces. Various models thus generated were analysed for different zones, different wind speeds and compared with unbraced0reference model with respect0to criteria’s like base shear, axial force, bending moment, shear force, drift index,0inter story drift and also to have maximum0reduction in inter storey0drift and drift index0per unit quantity0of steel consumed for0bracing configuration which0improves the lateral load0resisting capacity of the tall structures.