The influence of non-structural components on the serviceability performance of high-rise buildings

Abstract

In the last decade there has been an enormous increase in the number of highrise buildings constructed worldwide. Current Australian high-rise building design practice is to assume that the structural skeleton of a building provides resistance to any lateral forces that might occur. The overall design of high-rise buildings is usually dominated by serviceability limit state considerations rather than the ultimate limit state factors. This study demonstrates the influence of non-structural components (NSCs) (for example, partitions, doors, windows, and façades, etc.) on the lateral stiffness of high-rise buildings, with an emphasis on checks of the design at the serviceability limit state. Th..