Abstract

Abstract: An earthquake occurs in the form of seismic waves due to sudden release of energy and results in ground shaking.During earthquake, seismic waves propagate through the soil which results in structural damage due to movements withinthe earth’s crust. It impacts the behavior of interaction of components like building, foundation, underlying soils and alsooverall system behavior. When earthquake occurs, the behavior of a building depends on distribution of mass, strength andstiffness. Generally, the buildings are subjected to various types of forces throughout their existence. The forces can be staticforces due to dead and live loads and dynamic forces due to earthquake. In this study, the analysis is carried out for seismicresponse of (G+12) residential building for zone-I, II and III regions through response spectrum method and time historymethod in ETABS. The parameters likestorey displacement, storey drift and storey shear are observed for specified zones