Estudo do comportamento e otimização do projeto estrutural de edifícios de concreto armado.

Abstract

Based on the exponential growth of urban populations, the demand for space for housing has grown dramatically. To meet these needs, building ever higher and more slender are designed and increasing spans has been used. New materials are created and improved to be extracted maximum performance at the lowest cost. Thus, this research work aims to study the behaviour and optimization of buildings structural design. To do this, it is considered throughout the study the design of a reinforced concrete building with 47 meters high and 15 floors, subjected to the actions of usual design loadings on residential buildings in addition to wind loads. Regarding the development of the computational model, usual mesh refinement techniques are used, based on the finite element method simulations, and implemented in the ANSYS program. Initially, the structural model static and dynamic response is obtained and compared, based on the limiting values proposed by design standards. Based on the developed qualitative and quantitative analyses on the investigated structural model response, optimization techniques are used in order to modify and improve the structural performance of the analysed building.