Research

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): 981–1006. 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
  • Liu, X.-L., and Tong, F. 2003. ε…³δΊŽη»“ζž„ηŸ©ι˜΅εˆ†ζžδΈ­ι«˜ζ–―ζΆˆε…ƒζ³•ηš„δΈ€η§η‰©η†θ§£ι‡Š [Physical interpretation of Gaussian elimination in matrix analysis of structures]. ε›Ίδ½“εŠ›ε­¦εŠε…ΆεΊ”η”¨ [Solid Mechanics and its Engineering Applications], edited by Keh Chih Hwang and Bingye Xu, 141-49. Beijing, China: Tsinghua University Press. [In Chinese]
Research Positions
  • MASc student
  • PhD student
  • Postdoctoral fellow
  • Undergraduate student