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Building Structure and Hazard Mitigation Center 
The center aims to reduce the amount of building construction materials used and to mitigate the building hazards caused by fire, underground construction, and landslides.  The utilization of high-performance structural steel and concrete, as well as newly developed structural elements, will make it possible in future to reduce the usage of structural materials by an estimated hundreds of thousands of tons per year.  The Fire Safety Technology R&D Team is designing new-generation building fire evacuation systems and related equipment, with about 10 patents developed so far.  The Building Structure Disaster Prevention R&D Team is targeting building safety during foundation extraction and tunnel construction in urban areas, in addition to disaster prevention for building structures on hillsides, work that has produced two "electro-osmosis ground improvement technology" patents so far.
Director of Building Structure and Hazard Mitigation Center

Cheng-Cheng Chen

Office Room: E2-7071
Tel: 886-2-2737-6589           
Fax: 886-2-2737-6606
E-mail: c3@mail.ntust.edu.tw
Related Link: http://www.ct.ntust.edu.tw/english/tea/eteaInfo.jsp?id=c3&group=se
| Education
  • Ph.D., Civil Engineering, Lehigh University, USA

| Research
  • Ductile Concentrically Braced Frame Systems, Strengthening and Retrofitting of Existing Structures, Steel Reinforced Concrete Structures

| Professional Experience
  • Current:
  1. Director, Building Structure and Hazard Mitigation Center, TBTC, Taiwan Tech, Taiwan
  2. Professor, Construction Engineering Dept., Taiwan Tech, Taiwan

  • Past:
  1. CEO, Taiwan Building Technology Center, Taiwan Tech, Taiwan
  2. Chairman, Taiwan Institute of Steel Construction, Taiwan
  3. Engineer, High-rise-building Design, Evergreen Consulting Engineering, Inc.

| Honors and Awards
  1. Shyh-Jiann Hwang, Cheng-Cheng Chen, and Hung-Jeng Lee, "Mechanical Properties of Steel Bars and The Application of Steel Bars in Seismic Resistant Structures in Taiwan," Structural Engineering, Chinese Society of Structural Engineering, Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 23-38, 2000. (in Chinese, Best Engineering Paper Award of Chinese Society of Structural Engineering)
  2. Cheng-Cheng Chen, "Seismic Behavior and Design of Ductile Concentrically Braced Frames," Structural Engineering, Chinese Society of Structural Engineering, Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 53-78, 2000. (in Chinese, Nominated for Best Engineering Paper Award of Chinese Society of Structural Engineering)
| Teaching
  • Undergraduate program: Structural Steel Design, Advanced Structural Steel Design
  • Graduate program: Behavior of Steel Members, Inelastic Structural 

| Publications