Drift Analysis of irregular High-rise Building

Drift can be defined as the lateral displacement of a building due to lateral forces such as seismic force, wind force or movement of sub soil structure. Lateral displacement plays vital role in high-rise building. Lateral displacement increases with increase in the height of the building. These lateral displacements will leads to catastrophic failure of the building. Such type of failures can be avoided by providing desired bracing systems or shear walls wherever required in the building. In this paper the lateral displacement of irregular high-rise building with bracing system and shear walls have been discussed. The G+35 stories irregular building has taken into account for drift analysis. ETABS known as Established Three Dimensional Analysis for Building System software has been chosen for analyze the lateral displacement of irregular high-rise building with bracing system and shear walls effectively.