Effect of Incremental Loading with Construction Sequence Analysis of an RCC Floating Column Building Located in High Seismic Prone Areas

In this paper, the effects of the floating column (FC), as well as the transfer beam (TB), were studied to know the behavior of the structure under seismic conditions in zone IV whereas analysis was done using ETABS 2018. In a nonlinear analytic approach, the structure is analyzed at different phases in accordance with the order of construction, and the partial necessary forces are applied sequentially at each phase. The current study includes Equivalent static analysis (ESA), Response spectrum analysis (RSA), and Construction sequence analysis (CSA) and the final output is the behavior of structure with base shear, story drift, story displacement, bending moment, shear force, and deflection that were represented as graphs and tables. From this, it can be concluded that the CSA is a suitable analysis as it gives more accurate values for the floating column structure compared to ESA and RSA.