Paper Title
Seismic Pounding Effect of Adjacent Buildings with Different Heights

Abstract
This project aims at studying seismic pounding effect between adjoining buildings by linear and nonlinear dynamic analysis using ETABS (Non Linear) software. The project is focused towards studying the seismic effects on building structures and ways to manage pounding between adjacent buildings i.e., adjacent buildings with same height and different height using different systematic techniques for buildings located in India having seismic zone IV and medium soil type. The seismic analysis is done by equivalent static method and Time history method for same height and different height. Some of prevention techniques to reduce pounding between adjacent buildings can be by Constructing new Shear walls, cross bracing system and dampers in the structure and having preferred separation gap between adjacent buildings. Finally the results are observed to study the effect of structural displacements and pounding forces between two adjacent buildings. Keywords- Seismic Pounding, Separation gap, ETABS, Prevention of Structural Pounding by addition of shear walls, Bracings and Dampers.