Abstract:
Column failure is one of failure conditions in building where column cannot receive any more
load from beam or another element. Therefore in designing column required more accurate
calculation which need more time with manual calculation. The solution in designing column
with accurate calculation and faster is using finite element software. Finite element software
can calculate column strain with high precision result. In this paper, column failure determined
with the result of column strain. Column used in this paper using variation in: column section
dimension, concrete ultimate capacity, longitudinal reinforcement, and steel ultimate capacity.
With all variation, total data used in this research is 10962 data. In this paper, column damage
level noted as 0 if DL less than 1 and that mean column do not reach failure level, while
column damage level noted as 1 if DL more equal than 1 and that mean column reach failure
level. Result from finite element software analysis shows that column strain increase with the
increase of column parameter such as column section dimension. And column strain results
from finite element software have similar result with analysis using flexure method. This
results shows finite element software can be used in column failure analysis.
