Quantification of Vertical Irregularities for Earthquake Resistant Reinforced Concrete Buildings

In modern urban construction, irregular buildings are increasingly constructed to fulfill architectural and functional requirements. However, these revealed unfavorable seismic performance during the past earthquake records. When design codes deal with issue of building irregularity, little attention is paid location irregularity. current study, a detailed structural analysis was performed investigate effects mass, stiffness, setback, combined irregularities on response twelve models. Based dynamic properties building, an irregularity index proposed quantify magnitude various types vertical irregularities. The able successfully all