Design of Multi Story Residential Building and its Foundation

Abstract

This project is about designing a multi-story residential building that can also act as working place for freelancers such as architects, web designers, authors, etc. Due to the continuous increase in population and less availability of land especially in the metropolitan city there comes a great demand of building multi-story buildings. So there is a great need for urban planning to provide various facilities to the people living in the city and avoid problems like traffic. Middle-class people having limited money so can merge their office with home and can save travel time in traffic dominated city. Till a few years ago most of the Multi-story buildings were analyzed by approximate methods such as moment distribution method. Nowadays the buildings are analyzed by more advanced methods like finite element analysis and softwares like StaadPro, Ansys, etc. During this project we used softwares such as StaadPro, Autocad, Microsoft-Excel and Staad Foundation v8i to analyze & design the structure. During the project superstructure as well as substructure is analyzed & designed according to the soil-profile of the location. This project helps to cover basic concepts of Reinforced Cement Concrete (RCC), Geotechnical Engineering, and Foundation Engineering which are one of the important aspects of Civil Engineering. In this project we calculated the bearing capacity of soil on the basis of shear criteria and settlement criteria with the help of SPT & Plate Load Test value of site using Terzaghi’s Analysis and IS Code Method. We also created an excel formula sheet to calculate the bearing capacity of soil as per IS 6403 (1981), created the plan of the residential building and designed its elements beams, columns, slab and foundation. We designed Raft Foundation manually for the superstructure.