Keh-Chyuan Tsai is a professor of civil engineering at National Taiwan University (NTU) and director of the National Center for Research on Earthquake Engineering (NCREE). Tsai received his bachelor’s from NTU in 1977 and a master’s from Stanford University in 1979. He then worked as a structural engineer at Skidmore Owings Merrill until 1983. He received his PhD from the University of California Berkeley in 1988.

In 1989, Tsai joined the Department of Civil Engineering of NTU. He assisted in building the experimental facilities at NCREE in the mid-90s and was the head of the Building Engineering Division. These experiences led to being offered the position of director in 2003. Tsai guides NCREE on earthquake hazard mitigation research and outreach. He has worked with NTU graduate students in developing several types of energy absorbing steel elements for seismic resistant buildings. Tsai has also led the NCREE team in developing a platform for Internet-based Simulation for Earthquake Engineering, which has been successfully applied on distributed and collaborative hybrid tests of several full-scales steel and composite frame structures.

Tsai’s contributions also include leading the development of the Platform and Visualization for Inelastic Structures Analysis of 3D systems. These programs have been adopted in the substructure hybrid tests of several full-scale building frame specimens, as well as in the structural analysis of several tall building design projects in Taiwan. Tsai has assisted in the National Science and Technology Center for Disaster Reduction (NCDR) since 2003 as the leader of the earthquake division.

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Workshop Abstracts

Earthquake Hazard Mitigation Research and Practice in Taiwan: 10 Years after the 1999 Chi-Chi Earthquake

PowerPoint Presentation

Earthquake Hazard Mitigation Research and Practice: 10 years after Chi-Chi Earthquake

Related Resources by Keh-Chyuan Tsai from the Natural Hazards Library Staff

Development of Earthquake Assessment Methodology in NCREE