Course Schedule

Friday     09:00-12:00

Instructor' Name

Phone

E-mail:

Dr. Kutlu Darılmaz, Assoc. Prof. (ITU)

0 212 2856533

darilmazk@itu.edu.tr

Textbook & Supplementary Materials

• B.S. Taranath, Steel, Concrete & Composite Design of Tall Buildings, McGraw Hill, 1997.

• Wolfgang Schueller, High-rise Building Structures, Robert E. Krieger Publishing Co., 1986.

• Bryan Stafford Smith and Alex Coull, Tall Building Structures - Analysis and Design, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1991.

• Structural Systems for Tall Buildings, Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, 1995.

Course Outline

Introduction to Tall Building Structures

Gravity Systems

Lateral Load Resisting Systems

• Frame systems

• Dual Systems

• Coupled shear wall systems

• Tubular systems

Load Action on Tall Buildings

• Gravity loads

• Wind Loads

• Earthquake Loads

Approximate Analysis of

• Frame Systems

• Shear Wall Systems

Computer Modelling and Analysis of Tall Buildings

Modelling principles

• Computer Analysis using  ETABS and SAP2000 programs

Design of reinforced concrete shear walls and coupling beams.

Midterm Dates

Grading

Midterm exam (30%)

Assignments (20%)

Final Exam  (50%)

Attendance

  80 %

Course Objectives

Be capable of analyzing response of tall buildings under wind and earthquake forces. Be able to design the members of tall buildings.