August 2022
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Lately, multi-storey and high rise buildings in urban locales require column free territory because of shortage of space and for architectural prerequisites. For this reason multistorey structures are inhibited with floating columns for aesthetic perspective and also in getting more space at parking territories for free vehicular movement. Floating-column is a vertical member that ends at its lower level and rest on a beam that is a horizontal member. Provision of floating columns is extremely biased in building built-in seismically active regions. The primary aim of this study is to present a general review of the performance of reinforced concrete frame structures with and without the floating columns at different floors in "Regular and Non Regular" RC buildings. The analytical study of the RC buildings with and without floating columns is done using ETABS 2013 software.