Open Soft Floor High-rise Building's Seismic Reaction

Abstract

In Indian cities, soft first storeys are a typical feature of modern multistory structures. Emerging
economies like India continue to construct a large number of multistory buildings with soft floors
even though these buildings are inherently prone to toppling following an earthquake. The
practical and social requirement of having open stories at different levels of the structure for
workplaces and parking spaces at ground level outweighs the technical community's disapproval
of such constructions. The use of software in civil engineering has significantly decreased the
complexity of numerous sectors in project analysis and design due to the availability of fast
computers. This study examines how several soft-story structure types such as bare frames, infill
frames, bracing frames, and shears wall frames behave seismically when subjected to seismic
stress. When compared to a soft story, it has been shown that offering a range of models enhances
the structure's resistive performance.