Analysis of Seismic Pounding Between RC Buildings with Non-aligned slabs

Abstract: Building pounding is one of the most common and dangerous causes of structural damage and even collapse during earthquakes. When two adjacent buildings are separated by a small gap, this phenomenon happens. It is critical to investigate the consequences of earthquake damage. The pounding phenomenon occurs during strong earthquakes due to different-phase oscillations of buildings with improper distances. Intensive effects result from earthquakes with acceleration history of repeated directions changes with greater acceleration.

Keywords: Seismic pounding, Impact force, SAP 2000, Time history analysis, Gap element.