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SUMMARY:Stochastic Seismic Response and Reliability of Reinforced Concrete
  Structures
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DESCRIPTION:Professor Jianbing Chen\, School of Civil Engineering & State 
 Key Laboratory of Disaster Reduction in Civil Engineering\, Tongji Univers
 ity\, China\nUnder strong earthquakes the performance and safety of engine
 ering structures are of paramount importance. In this scenario\, the struc
 tures usually exhibit strong nonlinear behaviors\, and simultaneously\, th
 ere are large degree of randomness in both structural properties and seism
 ic excitations. Such coupling of nonlinearity and randomness in the analys
 is practical structures of large degrees of freedom leads to great challen
 ges. To this end\, in the past over 10 years\, we developed a family of pr
 obability density evolution method (PDEM)\, where the principle of preserv
 ation of probability is advocated as a basis of stochastic dynamics\, and 
 the physical mechanism/physical equations are incorporated into the random
  event description of this principle\, leading to the generalized density 
 evolution equation. In contrast to the traditional equations (e.g.\, FPK e
 quation)\, this equation in a one-dimensional equation and therefore could
  be applied to complex systems. Numerical methods were developed. Further\
 , combined with the stochastic damage constitutive law of concrete\, we im
 plemented the stochastic seismic response and reliability evaluation of pr
 actical concrete structures. Some engineering applications will be illustr
 ated.\nBio :\nJianbing Chen is currently a full professor on the faculty a
 t Tongji University in the School of Civil Engineering. He specializes in 
 the area of earthquake engineering\, stochastic dynamics and structural re
 liability. Specifically\, he is working on the development of probability 
 density evolution method (PDEM) for performance evaluation and reliability
  assessment of structures/engineering systems involving randomness both in
  the system properties and excitations. Dr. Chen received a Ph.D. in Civil
  Engineering from Tongji University\, China in 2002. He has been a visitin
 g scholar/visiting professor in the University of Southern California in U
 SA (2006-2007)\, Taiwan University of Science and Technology in China (201
 1)\, Aalborg University in Denmark (2012)\, and Vienne University of Techn
 ology in Austria (2014). Dr. Chen is the co-author of an English book titl
 ed “Stochastic Dynamics of Structures” (John Wiley & Sons\, 2009)\, th
 e co-author of 3 Chinese books and over 150 technical publications\, among
  which are nearly 110 peer-reviewed journal papers\, in the fields of stru
 ctural stochastic analysis and reliability theory. He was selected into th
 e “NCET Plan” of MOE of China in 2007 and the “Dawn Plan (Shuguang P
 lan)” of Shanghai Municipal Government in 2011\, was the recipient of Hu
 o Ying Dong prize in 2012\, and “National Outstanding Scientific and Tec
 hnological Workers” of China in 2014. He now also serves as a member of 
 the Joint Committee on Structural Safety (JCSS)\, vice Chairman of the Ran
 dom Vibration Committee of the Chinese Society of Vibration Engineering (C
 SVE)\, Chairman of the Vibration Mechanics Committee of the Shanghai Socie
 ty of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (CSTAM)\, and in the editorial boa
 rd of “Journal of Vibration Engineering”. He was among the “Most Cit
 ed Chinese Researchers” in 2014 and 2015.
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