As you can see in growing population
countries were demand of high rise building is
drastically increasing, due to which different types of
structural frame system have to look for economically,
structural stability and aesthetically aspects. These
different structural system such as conventional, braced
tube, outrigger, diagrid are most commonly used for
high rise buildings, among them Diagrid System are new
trends for high rise buildings due to its Structural and
aesthetical properties. Diagrid systems consists of
diagonal columns instead of vertical columns (Vertical
columns are deleted in this frame system). Diagrid
systems are diagonally connected due to which there is
reduction in lateral loads and some portion of gravity
load also as compared to other structural system.
Diagrid used in different angels depends upon the height
of the structure which is useful in reducing the forces. In
early days architectural view of the high rise buildings
are very important, due to the different angels of diagrid
with respect to height the combination gives better
architectural view than the Conventional and braced
system. At the start of the construction of high rise
building only conventional frame system is used for
construction later braced tube or braced frame system is
adopted in which both vertical column as well as diagrid
members are used for construction later and recently
Diagrid frame system were highly used it is some were
similar to braced tube system, only the vertical columns
are deleted. So in this thesis I am studying why diagrid
frame system are more adopted nowadays instead of
other structural system such as Conventional frame and
braced frame system. A rectangular plan of size 15 m ×
18 m and 20 story consist of 3m floor to floor of RCC
building is considered for analysis with same parameter
and same loadings for all buildings. The software used
for analysis and various data collections of all building
for comparison is Staad Pro. IS 456:2000 are used for
designing of all structural members and load
combinations of seismic forces are considered as per IS
1893(Part 1): 2002. After analysis of all the buildings
with same data the comparison is done by comparing the
beam forces, column forces, lateral displacement, story
drift, reinforcement in column, beam and footings etc.
Most of the lateral load are resist by external diagonal
columns at periphery of the building which gives less
effect of lateral loading to the internal column. This
causes reduction in the forces and reinforcement in
diagrid building as compared to conventional & braced
structure. As also there is less effect of lateral loading
there is less displacement and story drift in diagrid
building as compared to other buildings.