| Foreword | p. IX |
| Symposium resolution | p. XI |
| Cooperative earthquake engineering and hazard mitigation research: Challenges and opportunities in the new millennium | p. XIII |
| Plenary lectures | |
| Twenty years of fieldwork on dam-foundation-reservoir interaction | p. 3 |
| Some challenges to earthquake engineering in a new century | p. 7 |
| Seismic performance of transportation structures | p. 15 |
| Perspectives on successful international collaborative research | p. 37 |
| Measured ground shaking and observed damage: Do recent events confirm a direct connection? | p. 43 |
| An overview and preview of China-US joint research on earthquake engineering | p. 57 |
| Research of earthquake engineering in Hong Kong: Current status and future challenge | p. 77 |
| Contributed papers | |
| Strengthen the link between engineering and seismology | p. 103 |
| The center approach in earthquake engineering research and education | p. 109 |
| Improving management of urban earthquake disaster risks | p. 113 |
| Ground motion pulses and structural response | p. 119 |
| An overview of US-PRC cooperation on earthquake engineering at IEM and future prospects of the program | p. 127 |
| Catastrophe risk modeling and financial management | p. 133 |
| Some recent work in earthquake engineering at Dalian University of Technology | p. 139 |
| Assessing countermeasures to emergency response in earthquakes | p. 143 |
| Development of new seismic design concepts considering moderate seismicity in Korea | p. 149 |
| Research on effects of seismic source on space correlation | p. 153 |
| Seismic response of precast industrial buildings during the 1999 earthquakes in Turkey | p. 159 |
| Outline and concept of new Japanese seismic code | p. 163 |
| The study on earthquake disaster estimation in urban areas | p. 169 |
| Lessons on building performance from the great Hanshin-Awaji earthquake disaster in 1995 | p. 173 |
| A combine method to establish attenuation law of wide response spectrum | p. 177 |
| Reliability analysis of existing frame structure based on failure correlation | p. 183 |
| Dynamic model failure tests of dam structures | p. 187 |
| Modeling earthquake impact on urban lifeline systems: Advances and integration in loss estimation | p. 195 |
| Earthquake behavior of arch dams | p. 203 |
| Seismic reliability of lifeline systems | p. 209 |
| A cell-phone based wireless information system and its application | p. 215 |
| Effects of sediment on the dynamic pressure of water and sediment on dams | p. 219 |
| Seismic response characteristics of multispan cable-stayed bridges with stabilizing cables | p. 227 |
| Earthquake input and reliability analysis of water delivery systems | p. 233 |
| Seismic reliability analysis of electric power network system | p. 239 |
| Seismic behavior of underground structures and site response | p. 243 |
| Earthquake damage and countermeasure of industrial lifeline and equipment | p. 251 |
| Urban lifelines effects degree sequence and recovery time sequence | p. 255 |
| "Smart" base isolation systems: Theory and experiments | p. 259 |
| Magnetorheological fluid and smart damper for structural vibration control | p. 267 |
| Magnetorheological fluids--ready for real-time motion control | p. 273 |
| Recent development on seismic isolation, energy dissipation, passive and semi-active control of structures in P. R. China | p. 279 |
| Introducing a benchmark control problem for a cable-stayed bridge subjected to seismic excitation | p. 287 |
| Ultimate vs. serviceability limit state in designing bridge energy dissipation devices | p. 293 |
| Active/semiactive seismic response control of cable-supported bridges: Current research status and key issues | p. 299 |
| Study on seismic response reduction for floor increased structural system with friction bedding and dampers | p. 305 |
| Variable-damping-based semiactive control: Analogy between structural and suspension systems | p. 311 |
| Optimum and simulation of semi-active control system based on MRFD | p. 317 |
| A new type of base-isolator: A vertical shock absorber | p. 321 |
| Dynamic analysis for structures supported on slide-limited friction base isolation system | p. 329 |
| The development of super high strength bolts | p. 339 |
| Optimal seismic design of building structures with friction dampers | p. 345 |
| Study on the control algorithm based on maximum energy dissipation for semi-active fluid dampers | p. 351 |
| Seismic assessment and retrofit of Beijing engineering in the capital area of Beijing | p. 357 |
| Space nonlinear time-history analyzing for base-isolated Suqian city gymnasium | p. 361 |
| High performance, cost effective structural systems for seismic-resistant buildings | p. 367 |
| The optimal fortification load and reliability of aseismic structures | p. 371 |
| Shaking table test study on a model of steel-concrete hybrid structure for tall buildings | p. 377 |
| Advances in earthquake engineering with information technology | p. 383 |
| Introduction of US/PRC workshop on experimental methods in earthquake engineering and its influence on seismic testing in China | p. 389 |
| Finite element response sensitivity analysis in earthquake engineering | p. 395 |
| Full-range pushover analysis of a RC frame | p. 403 |
| Study on shaking table tests of building models | p. 411 |
| Experimental research and seismic design of RC frame with segmental short columns | p. 415 |
| Seismic design and retrofit using shape memory alloys | p. 419 |
| Strength reduction factor spectra based on structural damage performance | p. 425 |
| Shaking table tests to simulate earthquake responses of passive control structures | p. 431 |
| Study on performance-based seismic design of foundations and geotechnical structures | p. 437 |
| Nonlinear soil-pile-structure interaction for structures resting on a 2 x 2 pile group under earthquake excitations | p. 441 |
| Displacement-loading modes of low-cycle test simulating earthquake response of structure | p. 447 |
| Loading method for quasi-static and pseudodynamic test | p. 453 |
| Author index | p. 459 |
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