Abstract:
During the last decade, there has been a considerable increase in the construction of multi-storeyed buildings in India with frames to replace the traditional load bearing wall buildings, for both residential and commercial purposes, Structurally a multistoreyed building consists of frames w t'^ rigid joints. But to achieve economy in the design of moder'- tely tall buildings under the action of lateral loads due to wind, blast and earthquake forces these are provided with frames having diagonal bracing frames with masonry in-fill, frames with shear walls, coupled shear walls, core units or a, combination o f these sets of elements.....
