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Earthquakes and Structures Volume 23, Number 2, August 2022 , pages 151-168 DOI: https://doi.org/10.12989/eas.2022.23.2.151 |
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Mitigating the effect of urban layout on torsion of buildings caused by infill walls |
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Azadeh Noorifard, Mohammad Reza Tabeshpour and Fatemeh Mehdizadeh Saradj
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| Abstract | ||
| Torsion is one of the most important causes of building collapse during earthquakes. Sometimes, despite the symmetric form of the building, infill walls disturb the symmetry of the lateral resisting system. The purpose of this research is to investigate the effect of urban layout on developing torsion caused by infill walls. For this purpose, a typological study was conducted based on the conditions of perimeter walls on 364 buildings and then 9 cases were selected. The dimensions of the selected buildings are constant and the conditions of the perimeter walls including facades with openings and cantilevered facades are variable. The selected buildings with 60 different layouts of infill walls were analyzed and the behavior of each one was evaluated based on the torsional irregularity criteria of seismic codes. The results of the analyses showed that if the perimeter walls of a building are symmetric, asymmetric interior walls will not be important in developing torsion and effective parameters in symmetry of the perimeter infill walls are the number of walls, area of openings, aspect ratio, and construction details. Finally, architectural solutions to mitigate the torsional effects of infill walls were proposed for buildings with solid infill walls on some sides, for buildings where the perimeter walls of one side are on the cantilevered part, and for buildings where the perimeter walls of two adjacent sides are on the cantilevered part. In three-sided buildings, where two adjacent façades are cantilevered, it is often impossible to use the potential of the infill walls. | ||
| Key Words | ||
| cantilevered façade; façade with opening; infill wall; seismic codes; torsion; urban layout | ||
| Address | ||
| Azadeh Noorifard: School of Architecture, College of Fine Arts, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran Mohammad Reza Tabeshpour:Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran Fatemeh Mehdizadeh Saradj: School of Architecture and Environmental Design, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran | ||