SOFT STORY DESIGN IN REINFORCED CONCRETE STRUCTURE AND EFFECT OF MASONRY INFILL WALL

In past few decades researhers and engineers have researched extensively on the effects of masonry infill walls in structural frames and the effects of masonry infill walls on the stuctural response was a concern for them one of the sections in iranian codes that existence of masonry infill walls in buildings affects it , is the section 2-10 of 2800 code that accordance to this section in order to prevent soft story failure when there is a discontinuity in bracing or shear walls in a certain story , columns of that story must be designed for factored loads.

Keywords:

design of soft story , masonry infill wall , reinforced concrete structure , equivalent compressive brace , overstrength factor of column