ABSTRACT
Dalian University of Technology has been engaged in teaching and research of earthquake engineering for a long time. Research activities cover numerical simulation, shaking table test and design methodology for dam, offshore platform, high-rise building, masonry structures subjected to earthquake environment and hazard mitigation. Collaboration with US and other countries contributes to our achievement a great deal. Three on-going research areas are briefly reported. Under financial support of National ‘211’ project of Chinese government, an underwater shaking table is installed in 2000. It enhances the capacity of research on water-structure-soil at DUT. Fast computational scheme for structural random response has been carried out and extended to problems with damping and control. This approach will open new possibility to take uncertainty of earthquake into consideration of design. Performance-based structural system reliability and related structural optimization is discussed.
