Estudo do comportamento estrutural e análise de conforto humano de edifícios de concreto armado.

Abstract

Currently, the tall buildings projects increasingly need a simple structural systems that streamline their assembly, reducing costs and promoting greater flexibility of use for the built environment. For this purpose, structures with few beams are being widely used. However, the structural system with few beams may cause two kinds of problems, related to each other, namely: reduction of the bracing system of the building and excessive vibration. It is therefore vital in such cases, the verification of global stability of the structure, using sensitivity indexes and other design parameters, as well as the development of a thorough study of the human comfort of the building. Therefore, this research work have been investigated four structural models of tall buildings of reinforced concrete, based on the study of the variation of the number of floors and the quantity of beams in each model, aiming to verify what effects these variations. They are likely to generate on the overall stability and, as well as on human comfort and structural systems investigated. The numerical modeling of buildings under study was performed by employing the ANSYS program, and to such basic techniques of discretization were used through the finite element method. The conclusions reached during the investigation turn concerning the study of the static and dynamic structural response of buildings in respect of the variations of the values of the instability criteria, of the values of displacements and efforts, and as well, the human comfort level each structural model analyzed.