Positioning of Water Tank on Building to Minimize the Earthquake Effect

Abstract

In the contemporary building designs, civil engineering has been benchmarking the construction techniques of the modern day civilizations. But not many of the conventional approaches towards producing a layout of a building acknowledge the impact of the placement of water tanks. We took it as an initiative to study the relative influences this factor can exert over the results of an efficient building design and to our consternation, these were substantial enough to be considered while working out the deliverables. The relative positioning of the water tanks yields, to our consternation, impervious conclusions to the earthquake analysis of the structure and paves way for a fitter prototype. The building is of G+4 storey. The seismic zone taken is zone V. Moreover the building taken is of unsymmetrical nature. To obtain the results static analysis is done.