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    Analysis and design of a multi story building with soft-story effect
    (2021) Fatima Javeed; Tooba Saqib; Muhammad Hamza Imtiaz; Muhammad Qasim Toor
    Soft-story is also called a flexible story but it shows poor performance during an earthquake. Soft stories are subjected to larger lateral loads during earthquakes and under these loads, their lateral deformations are greater than other floors so the design of structural members of this floor (soft story) is critical. This causes major problems if the building is located in an active seismic zone. For this reason, the soft story should be evaded as much as possible. But these irregularities can be improved by providing lateral rigidity. We will eliminate the effect of soft-story when we will analyze our structure by using ETABS and with the help of building codes. ETABS not only handle the analysis and design of simple structure and can give accurate results but also it can handle the complex and largest building structural models. The soft-story can be used for parking or commercial purposes in residential buildings. We will also discuss the comparison between a building with soft-story and without soft-story