International Research Journal of Engineering and Technology (IRJET) e-ISSN: 2395-0056 Volume: 07 Issue: 08 | Aug 2020 www.irjet.net p-ISSN: 2395-0072 © 2020, IRJET | Impact Factor value: 7.529 | ISO 9001:2008 Certified Journal | Page 1617 Study of Optimistic Location of Soft Story in High Rise RC Building Anuj Bhikanrao Ingle 1 , Dr. S. S. Angalekar 2 1 P.G. Student, Sinhgad College of Engineering Pune, Maharashtra State, India 2 Professor, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Sinhgad College of Engineering Pune, Maharashtra State, India ---------------------------------------------------------------------***---------------------------------------------------------------------- Abstract - Now a day’s growth of Multi-story building is very high because of rapid urbanization all over the world. Availability of land is minimum due to population, so people end to construct the multi-story building in earthquake prone area also. In soft-story buildings the relative stiffness of the soft-story, typically the bottom story, is significantly less than upper stories due to the presence of large openings which reduce the available space for lateral force resisting system components such as shear walls. Soft story is generally provided for parking, concert hall, Cinema Theater, barn or any purpose in multi-story building, though multi-storeyed buildings with soft storey floor are inherently vulnerable to collapse due to earthquake. This depends on various factors effects on the behavior of multi-story building i.e. irregularity in plan and elevations, uneven distribution of mass etc. To study of different location on the seismic behavior of multi-story building, linear dynamic analysis (Response spectrum analysis) in ETABS software is carried out for Zone IV. In this project an investigation has been made to study the seismic behavior of soft storey building with different arrangement in soft storey building with shear wall and bracings. This analysis is with consideration of strength and stiffness in the upper storey and with and without consideration of braces in the ground storey. Different seismic parameters like time period, story shear, story displacement and story drift are checked out. Key Words: Earthquake, Response Spectrum analysis, soft story, shear wall, bracing. 1. INTRODUCTION An earthquake is the result of a sudden release of energy in the earth’s crust that creates seismic waves. The seismic activity of an area refers to the frequency, type and size of earthquake experienced over a period of time. At the earth’s surface, earthquake occurs itself by shaking and sometimes displacement of the ground. When the epicentre of a large earthquake is located offshore, the sea bed may be displaced sufficiently to cause a tsunami. Earthquakes can also trigger landslides and occasionally volcanic activities. An earthquake is measured by seismometers. An earthquake having magnitude of less than 5 are generally measured by Richter magnitude scale & that of magnitude up to 9 or more then 9 is measured by modified Mercalli scale. In its most general sense, the word earthquake is used to describe any seismic event, whether natural or caused by humans that generate seismic waves. Earthquakes are caused mostly by rupture of geological faults, but also by other events such as volcanic activities, landslides, blasts and nuclear tests. An earthquake’s pint of initial rupture is called its focus or hypocenter. The epicenter is the point at ground level directly above the hypocenter. Benavent-Climent and S. Mota-Páez (2017) investigated a solution for the seismic upgrade of existing reinforced concrete frames with open first story and masonry infills at the upper stories. It combines the addition of hysteretic dampers with the strengthening (if necessary) of the columns of the first story. The energy- based design procedure put forth provides the strength, stiffness and energy dissipation capacity required for the dampers so that the overall structure can endure the design earthquake without exceeding a prescribed maximum drift at the first story. Non-linear time history analyses conducted on two prototype structures subjected to thirty ground motions showed that the performance of the retrofitted structures is satisfactory, and the proposed procedure provides for a safe-side and not excessively conservative dimensioning of the dampers. The mean-plus standard deviation of the first story drift obtained from the analyses roughly coincides (about 8% lower) with the target drift used for designing the dampers. The probability of having first story drifts larger that the target drift is very low (13%), and in no case the target drift was exceeded by more than 20%. The maximum shear forces in the upper stories predicted with the proposed formulae coincides approximately with the upper bound of the responses obtained from the time history analyses. The residual drift at the first story is less than 0.05% for 83% of the ground motions. Adrian Fredrick C. Dyaa and Andres Winston C. Oretaaa (2015) have studied the Seismic vulnerability assessment of soft story irregular buildings using pushover analysis .Preliminary seismic risk assessment tools were used to screen existing buildings against potential seismic hazards. Buildings that perform poorly were prioritized for detailed evaluations to determine its condition. The risk of a building can be defined as the product of Hazard, Vulnerability, and Assets. Hazard is the earthquake itself. Vulnerability are building characteristics that make it more susceptible to the hazard. Upon analysis of the modelling results for the soft story building, they have concluded that the main cause for soft story buildings