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Research Interests
- Seismic resilience of buildings and infrastructure
- Innovative high seismic performance concepts, systems, devices, and design
- Rocking systems, kinematic seismic isolation, supplemental damping technologies
- Kinetic structures with mechanical mechanisms, replaceable elements, and articulated connections
- Performance-based earthquake engineering and seismic design
- Advanced nonlinear modelling and numerical analysis
- Dynamics of structures, earthquake engineering
- Practical design of high-rise buildings, bridges, and complex structures
- Practical design of reinforced concrete, prestressed concrete, steel, and composite structures
- Practical design of tall timber structures
Publications
- F. Tong, and C. Christopoulos. 2024. Performance spectra for core-wall high-rise buildings with dual uncoupled base isolating mechanisms. The 18th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Milan, Italy, June 30 – July 5.
- F. Tong, and C. Christopoulos. 2024. Analytical study on higher-mode effects in tall structures with dual mechanisms at the base. CSCE Annual Conference, Niagara Falls, Canada, June 5 – 7.
- Mohammadyzadeh, S., J.-H. Zhou, L. Hu, and F. Tong. 2023. System identification of tall mass timber structures employing ambient vibration tests and FE modelling. World Conference on Timber Engineering, Oslo, 2023.
- Tong, F., and Christopoulos, C. 2021. Insights on higher-mode effects in high-rise buildings with flexible base rotational and translational restraints: A theoretical study using a continuum beam analogy. Journal of Earthquake Engineering. DOI: 10.1080/13632469.2021.2001394
- Tong, F., and Christopoulos, C. 2020. Uncoupled rocking and shear base-mechanisms for resilient reinforced concrete high-rise buildings. Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics, 49(10): 981β1006. DOI: 10.1002/eqe.3273
- Tong, F., and Christopoulos, C. 2020. Modelling of 3D rolling columns used in an uncoupled base dual-mechanism system for high-rise buildings. In Proceedings of the 17th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Sendai, Japan.
- Tong, F., and Christopoulos, C. 2019. Higher-mode mitigation system for high-rise buildings using uncoupled base rocking and shear mechanisms. In Proceedings of the 12th Canadian Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Quebec City, Canada. https://www.caee.ca/12CCEEpdf/192-GANn-199.pdf
- Tong, F., and Liu, X.-L. 2005. Samples selection for artificial neural networks training in preliminary structural design. Tsinghua Science and Technology, 10(2): 233-39. DOI: 10.1016/S1007-0214(05)70060-2
- Tong, F., and Liu, X.-L. 2004. On training sample selection for artificial neural networks using number-theoretic methods. In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Engineering Computational Technology, Paper 131, Lisbon, Portugal. doi:10.4203/ccp.80.131
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Research Positions
- MASc student
- PhD student
- Postdoctoral fellow
- Undergraduate student