PREVENTING IRREGULARITY EFFECTS OF INFILLS THROUGH MODIFYING ARCHITECTURAL DRAWINGS

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PREVENTING IRREGULARITY EFFECTS OF INFILLS THROUGH MODIFYING ARCHITECTURAL DRAWINGS

Azadeh NOORIFARD a*, Mohammad Reza TABESHPOUR b, Fatemeh Mehdizadeh SARADJ c,

a PhD Candidate; Department of Architecture and Environmental Design, Iran University of Science and Technology,

Tehran, Iran

*E-mail address: anoorifard@iust.ac.ir

bAssistant Prof.; Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

cAssociate Prof.; Department of Architecture and Environmental Design, Iran University of Science and Technology,

Tehran, Iran

Received: 21.12.2015; Revised: 25.04.2016; Accepted: 29.04.2016

Ab s t r a c t

Experiences of past earthquakes show that some designed and constructed buildings by engineers have been damaged during

earthquakes because of negative effects of infill walls. The main aim of this paper is to prevent the amount of overall

detrimental effects of infill walls such as torsion and soft story in a conventional residential building based on seismic codes

of some countries and to use the maximum potential of walls. The results show that building in construction condition may

suffer torsion because infills which are not modelled in design process are attached to the structure in construction phase.

Contrary to the initial impression that there is a soft story in municipal buildings because of parking on ground floor, in

buildings with architectural plan similar to the analyzed one, soft story would not happen. Furthermore, this case study

proves that it is possible to prevent irregularity effects of infills through modifying architectural drawings without fundamental

changes in concept, functional and aesthetic aspects. For modifying architectural drawings an algorithm is proposed

in this research.

 

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