Behaviour of a Floating Column in a Building

Floating Column is designed with proper care to make sure that the final design can withstand loading and will be durable and serviceable for its lifetime to withstand external loading. This research paper presents RCC framed building with floating column on first floor which is analysed and designed under the normal loading condition. STAAD Pro is a structural tool which can help to find out the structural changes which can take place while providing floating column. This software deals with all types of loading which comes on the structure including wind load and earthquake loading. STAAD Pro is commonly used by Civil Engineers for structural designing and is nowadays leading design software in designing structures. Many design industries perform all types of designing on this software which deals with buildings. So, this research deals with the analysis and design of framed structure with floating column at ground floor of the building, the behaviour of floating. This research paper presents the behaviour of floating column in a building, its load distribution and continuity in structure. It was observed that floating columns do not take load as much as those columns which are connected to foundation. Pros and cons of using floating column in a structure will also be mentioned in this study. Floating column is mostly used where there is need of open space such as in parking, seminar halls, conference halls to not make any obstruction by column. But to transfer the load coming from columns from above floors is of much more important to transfer to foundation.