Collision analysis of neighboring structures with insufficient joint distance with same and different slab levels under earthquake effect

Housing needs are increasing day by day with the increase in population in our country. For this reason, buildings are built in adjacent buildings and multi-storey buildings. These adjacent or side-by-side structures collide with each other during the earthquake, causing serious damage to structures. This demonstrates the importance of studies on adjacent structures. In this study, it is aimed to investigate the behavior of adjacent buildings with different storey levels under the effect of earthquake and to shed light on the future studies in this context. For this purpose, adjacent regular concrete buildings with the same and different storey numbers were modeled. These buildings were modeled with different distances between the buildings and at different floor levels in SAP2000 package program and dynamic analysis was performed under the influence of earthquake using the 1940 El Centro earthquake record. As a result of the analyzes, the collision forces, shear forces and moments in the floors were plotted and examined.