Structural Analysis of Regular Multi-Storey Buildings

Karoly Zalka is a structural engineering consultant and visiting Professor at Budapest Technical University, and former consultant to the Building Research Establishment, UK. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Structural Engineers (UK) and author of Global Structural Analysis of Buildings, published by Spon in 2000.

Introduction Part I: Theory 2 Individual Bracing Units: Frames, (Coupled) Shear Walls and Cores 2.1 Deflection Analysis of Sway-Frames under Horizontal Load 2.2 Frequency Analysis of Rigid Sway-Frames 2.3 Stability Analysis of Rigid Sway-Frames 2.4 Other Types of Framework 2.5 Coupled Shear Walls 2.6 Shear Walls 2.7 Cores 3 Deflection and Rotation Analysis of Buildings under Horizontal Load 3.1 Lateral deflection analysis of buildings under horizontal load 3.2 Torsional Analysis of Buildings under Horizontal Load 3.3 Maximum deflection 3.4 Accuracy 4 Frequency Analysis of Buildings 4.1 Lateral Vibration of a System of Frameworks, (Coupled) Shear Walls and Cores 4.2 Pure Torsional Vibration 4.3 Coupled Lateral-Torsional Vibration 4.4 Accuracy 5 Stability Analysis of Buildings 5.1 Sway Buckling of a System of Frameworks, (Coupled) Shear Walls and Cores 5.2 Sway Buckling: Special Bracing Systems 5.3 Pure Torsional Buckling 5.4 Combined Sway-Torsional Buckling 5.5 Concentrated Top Load 5.6 Accuracy 6 The Global Critical Load Ratio Part II. Practical Application: Worked Examples 7 Individual Bracing Units 7.1 The Maximum Deflection of a Thirty-Four Storey Framework 7.2 The Fundamental Frequency of a Forty-Storey Framework 7.3 The Critical Load of a Seven-Bay, Twelve-Storey Framework 7.4 The Critical Load of an Eight-Storey Framework with Cross-Bracing 7.5 The Critical Load of Eighteen-Storey Coupled Shear Walls 8 The Maximum Rotation and Deflection of Buildings under Horizontal Load 8.1 The Maximum Deflection of a Sixteen-Storey Symmetric Cross-Wall System Building 8.2 The Maximum Deflection of a Twenty-Eight Storey Asymmetric Building Braced by Frameworks, Shear Walls and a Core 9 The Fundamental Frequency of Buildings 9.1 Thirty-Storey Doubly Symmetric Building Braced by Shear Walls and Frameworks 9.2 Six-Storey Asymmetric Building Braced by Shear Walls and Infilled Frameworks 10 The Global Critical Load of Buildings 10.1 Thirty-Storey Doubly Symmetric Building Braced by Shear Walls and Frameworks 10.2 Six-Storey Asymmetric Building Braced by a Core and an Infilled Framework 11 Global Structural Analysis of a Twenty-Two Storey Building 11.1 The Critical Load 11.2 The Fundamental Frequency 11.3 Maximum Deflection of the Building 12 The Global Critical Load Ratio: A Performance Indicator 12.1 Ten-Storey Building Braced by Two Reinforced Concrete Shear Walls and Two Steel Frameworks 12.2 Five-Storey Building Braced by a Single Core Appendix: List of Worksheets References Index