Researchers
Ruizhi WEN
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Professor |
Research Direction |
Engineering seismology |
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+86-0451-86652663 |
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ruizhi@iem.ac.cn |
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Mailing Address |
No.29 Xuefu Road, Nangang District, Harbin 150080, China |
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Education
1. B.S., Dalian University of Technology, Engineering Mechanics, 1987/09-1991/07;
2. M.S., Dalian University of Technology, Structural Mechanics, 1991/07-1994/04;
3. Ph.D., Institute of Engineering Mechanics, China Earthquake Administration, Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Engineering and Protective Engineering, 1994/09-1999/08.
Professional Experience
1. Assistant Professor/Associate Professor, Institute of Engineering Mechanics, China Earthquake Administration, 1994/04-2001/05;
2. Visiting Scholar, United States Geological Survey, 1998/01-1999/04;
3. Software Analyst, Calsim Technology Inc., Canada, 2001/06-2005/05;
4. Director, Division of Information Technology and Engineering Materials, Institute of Engineering Mechanics, China Earthquake Administration, 2005/05-2011/06;
5. Professor, Institute of Engineering Mechanics, China Earthquake Administration, 2006/12 to present
6. Director, Division of Earthquake Seismology, Institute of Engineering Mechanics, China Earthquake Administration, 2011/07-2019/01;
7. Director, Department of Science and Technology Development, Institute of Engineering Mechanics, China Earthquake Administration, 2016/06-2022/10;
8. Deputy director, Institute of Engineering Mechanics, China Earthquake Administration, 2022/10 to present
Research Interest
1. Strong-Motion Observation and Application: Technical requirements of strong motion seismography, Construction of strong-motion stations, Operation and maintenance of strong-motion observation network, Formulation of standards for strong-motion observation, Quality evaluation and processing technology for strong-motion recordings, and Characteristics on strong-motion recordings, Development of ground motion prediction model, Seismic ground motion input for engineering structure
2. Site Effects: Estimation of characteristic parameters of engineering sites, Engineering site classification, Site amplification factors based on the spectral ratio method and spectral inversion technology, Basin effects.
3. Earthquake Emergency Response for Major Engineering Projects: Theoretical methods and strategies for emergency response and post-earthquake functional recovery of major engineering projects such as urban rail transit, nuclear power plants, and gas pipeline network,
4. Earthquake-induced Tsunami Hazard Analysis: Pioneered work on numerical simulation and hazard analysis of earthquake-induced tsunami in China, Proposing a method for probabilistic earthquake-induced tsunami hazard assessment, Determination of potential tsunami sources and probabilistic tsunami hazard analysis in south Chinese coastal area.
Academic Service and Activities
1. Vice Chairman, Professional Committee on Coastal and Offshore Engineering Disasters and Environmental Protection, Seismological Society of China
2. Vice Chairman, Professional Committee on Strong-Motion Observation Technology and Application, Seismological Society of China
3. Vice Chairman, Professional Committee on Geotechnical Engineering Earthquake Disaster Prevention and Mitigation, Seismological Society of China
4. Vice Chairman, Standardization Professional Technical Committee on Disaster Prevention, China Railway Society
5. Secretary-general and Member, Professional Committee on Earthquake Engineering, Seismological Society of China
6. Member, Professional Committee on Disaster Prevention and Resilience for Urban and Rural Engineering, China Association for Disaster Prevention
7. Executive Member, Professional Committee on Nuclear Facility Site Safety, China Nuclear Industry Survey and Design Association
8. Member, Coordinate Group for Earthquake Disaster Risk Prevention and Control Science and Technology, China Earthquake Administration
9. Secretary-general and Executive Director, Heilongjiang Society of Earthquake Engineering
10. Member, Academic Committee on IASPEI/IAEE Joint Working Group on Effects of Surface Geology on Strong Ground Motion
11. Associate Editor, Earthquake Science
12. Associate Editor, Reviews of Geophysics and Planetary Physics
13. Vice Chairman, Journal of Natural Disasters
14. Editorial Board Member, Acta Seismological Sinica
15. Editorial Board Member, Earthquake Research Advances
16. Editorial Board Member, World Earthquake Engineering
Awards and Honors
1. Special government allowances of the State Council
2. National Excellent Science and Technology Worker
3. Leading Talent of China Earthquake Administration
4. Third Prize, Energy Innovation Award of the China Energy Research Society
5. Second Prize, Scientific and Technological Award of the Chinese Society for Rock Mechanics % Engineering
6. Third Prize, Earthquake Prevention and Disaster Reduction Science and Technology Achievement Award of China Earthquake Administration
7. Third Prize, Science and Technology Award of the China Nuclear Energy Association
Supported Projects
1. National Key R&D Program of China, “Research and Demonstration Application of Earthquake Emergency Response Technology for Major Engineering Projects (2017YFC1500800)”, 2018/07-2021/06
2. National Key R&D Program of China, Intergovernmental international scientific and technological innovation cooperation project, “Harmonization of ground motion model and seismic zonation in China and Tajikistan (2023YFE0102900)”, 2023/07–2025/06.
3. General Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China, “Research on Selection and Evaluation of Seismic ground-motion Recordings for Different Demands (51778589)”, 2018/01–2021/12.
4. General Program of Natural Science Foundation of Heilongjiang Province, “Study on Selection and evaluation of Strong-Motion Recordings for Different Demands (E2017065)”, 2017/10–2020/10.
5. Scientific Research Project of Earthquake Department, “Research on Selection Criteria and Engineering Applications of Strong-Motion Recordings (201508005)”, 2015/01–2017/12.
6. Project of Seismic, Tsunami, and Volcano Collaborative Research of Northeast Asia, “Earthquake-induced Tsunami Hazard Analysis in China (ZRH2014-11)”, 2014/07–2015/12.
7. General Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China, “Probabilistic Earthquake-induced Tsunami Hazard Analysis in China (51278473)”, 2013/01–2016/12.
Selected Publications
Monograph
[1] Ruizhi Wen, Kun Ji, and Yefei Ren. Ground Motion Input for Engineering: From Traditional Seismic Design to Resilience Enhancement, Seismological Press, 2021.
[2] Ruizhi Wen, Yefei Ren, Hongwei Wang, Kun Ji, and Peibin Xu. Analysis and Application of Strong-Motion Recordings: A Case Study of the MS 7.0 Lushan, China Earthquake, Seismological Press, 2017.
[3] Yefei Ren, Ruizhi Wen, Kun Ji, Hongwei Wang, and Ye Liu. Theory and Practice of Tsunami Hazard Analysis, Science Press, 2022.
Academic Papers (Partial from 2010 to present):
2023
[4] Shengyin Qiang, Hongwei Wang, Ruizhi Wen, Qifang Liu, and Ying Zhou. Investigating the effects of structural parameters on seismic aggravation of two-dimensional sedimentary valleys, Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, 2023, 171: 107964.
2022
[5] Hongwei Wang, Chunguo Li, Ruizhi Wen, and Yefei Ren. Integrating effects of source‐dependent factors on sediment‐depth scaling of additional site amplification to ground‐motion prediction equation, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 2022, 112 (1): 400–418.
[6] Shengyin Qiang, Hongwei Wang, Ruizhi Wen, Yefei Ren, and Jianwen Cui. Characteristics of strong ground motions from four MS ≥ 5.0 earthquakes in the 2021 Yangbi, southwest China, seismic sequence, Journal of Earthquake Engineering, 2022: 1-18.
[7] Ying Zhou, Hongwei Wang, Ruizhi Wen, Tianming Miao, and Jianwen Cui. Source characteristics and path attenuation for the Yangbi, China seismic sequence in 2021, Pure and Applied Geophysics, 2022, 179: 2721–2733.
2021
[8] Hongwei Wang, and Ruizhi Wen. Attenuation and basin amplification revealed by the dense ground motions of the 12 July 2020 MS 5.1 Tangshan, China, Earthquake, Seismological Research Letters, 2021, 92(4): 2109–2121.
[9] Kun Ji, Ruizhi Wen, Yefei Ren, Weiyi Wang, and Lansheng Chen. Disaggregation of probabilistic seismic hazard and construction of conditional spectrum for China, Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering, 2021, 19: 5769–5789.
[10] Kun Ji, Ruizhi Wen, Chengcai Zong, and Yefei Ren. Genetic algorithm‐based ground motion selection method matching target distribution of generalized conditional intensity measures, Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics, 2021, 50(6): 1497-1516.
[11] Shengyin Qiang, Hongwei Wang, Ruizhi Wen, Chunguo LI, and Yefei Ren. Three-dimensional ground motion simulations by the stochastic finite-fault method for the Yangbi, Yunnan MS 6.4 earthquake on May 21, 2021, Chinese Journal of Geophysics, 2021, 64(12): 4538-4547. (in Chinese)
2020
[12] Kun Ji, Ruizhi Wen, Yefei Ren, and Yadab P. Dhakal. Nonlinear seismic site response classification using K-means clustering algorithm: case study of the September 6, 2018 Mw 6.6 Hokkaido Iburi-Tobu earthquake, Japan, Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, 2020, 128: 105907.
[13] Kun Ji, Yefei Ren, and Ruizhi Wen, Empirical correlations between generalized ground‐motion intensity measures for earthquakes in China, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 2020, 111(1): 274-294.
[14] Hongwei Wang, and Ruizhi Wen. Earthquake source characteristics and S-wave propagation attenuation in the Junction of the northwest Tarim Basin and Kepingtage fold-and-thrust zone, Frontiers in Earth Science, 2020, 8: 567939.
[15] Ying Zhou, Hongwei Wang, Ruizhi Wen, Yefei Ren, and Kun Ji. Insights on nonlinear soil behavior and its variation with time at strong-motion stations during the Mw7.8 Kaikoura, New Zealand earthquake, Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, 2020, 136, 106215.
[16] Peibin Xu, Yefei Ren, Ruizhi Wen, and Hongwei Wang. Observations on regional variability in ground-motion amplitude from six Mw ~ 6.0 earthquakes of the North-South seismic zone in China, Pure and Applied Geophysics, 2020, 177, 247-264.
2019
[17] Hongwei Wang, Yefei Ren, Ruizhi Wen, and Peibin Xu.. Breakdown of earthquake self-similar scaling and source rupture directivity in the 2016-2017 central Italy seismic sequence, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 2019, 124(4), 3898-3917.
[18] Hongwei Wang, Ruizhi Wen, Yefei Ren, and Peibin Xu. Investigating the contribution of stress drop to ground-motion variability by simulations using the stochastic empirical Green’s function method, Pure and Applied Geophysics, 2019, 176(10), 4415-4430.
[19] Kun Ji, Yefei Ren, Ruizhi Wen, and Chun-Hsiang Kuo. Near-field velocity pulse-like ground motions on February 6, 2018 MW6.4 Hualien, Taiwan earthquake and structural damage implications, Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, 2019, 126, paper ID: 105784.
2018
[20] Ruizhi Wen, Peibin Xu, Hongwei Wang, and Yefei Ren. Single-station standard deviation using strong-motion data from Sichuan region, China, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 2018, 108(4): 2237-2247.
[21] Hongwei Wang, Yefei Ren, and Ruizhi Wen. Source parameters, path attenuation and site effects from strong-motion recordings of the Wenchuan aftershocks (2008–2013) using a non-parametric generalized inversion technique, Geophysical Journal International, 2018, 212: 872–890.
[22] Yefei Ren, Hongwei Wang, Peibin Xu, Dhakal P. Yadab, Ruizhi Wen, Qiang Ma, and Peng Jiang. Strong-motion observations of the 2017 Ms7.0 Jiuzhaigou earthquake: comparison with the 2013 Ms 7.0 Lushan earthquake, Seismological Research Letters, 2018, 89(4), 1354-1365.
[23] Yefei Ren, Ying Zhou, Hongwei Wang, and Ruizhi Wen. Source characteristics, site effects, and path attenuation from spectral analysis of strong-motion recordings in the 2016 Kaikoura earthquake sequence, Bulletin of the Seismology Society of America, 2018, 108(3B), 1757-1773.
[24] Kun Ji, Najib Bouaanani, Ruizhi Wen and Yefei Ren. Introduction of conditional mean spectrum and conditional spectrum in the practice of seismic safety evaluation in China. Journal of Seismology, 2018, 22(4): 1005-1024.
[25] Peibin Xu, Ruizhi Wen and Yefei Ren. Comparison of strong-motion records and damage implications between the 2014 Yunnan MS 6.5 Ludian earthquake and MS 6.6 Jinggu earthquake, Earthquake Science, 2018, 31(1): 12-18.
2017
[26] Yefei Ren, Ruizhi Wen, Xinxin Yao, and Kun Ji. Five parameters for the evaluation of the soil nonlinearity during the MS 8.0 Wenchuan earthquake using the HVSR method, Earth Planets Space, 2017, 69(1): 1-17.
[27] Yefei Ren, Ruizhi Wen, Peng Zhang, Zhibo Yang, Rong Pan, and Xiaojun Li. Implications of local sources to probabilistic tsunami hazard analysis in south Chinese coastal area, Journal of Earthquake and Tsunami, 2017, 11(1): 1-26.
[28] Yefei Ren, Hongwei Wang, Ruizhi Wen. Imprint of rupture directivity from ground motions of the 24 August 2016 Mw 6.2 Central Italy earthquake, Tectonics, 2017, 36(12): 3178–3191.
[29] Hongwei Wang, Ruizhi Wen, and Yefei Ren. Simulating ground‐motion directivity using stochastic empirical Green’s function method, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 2017, 107 (1): 359–371.
[30] Kun Ji, Najib Bouaanani, Ruizhi Wen, and Yefei Ren. Correlation of spectral accelerations for earthquakes in China, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 2017, 107(3): 1213-1226.
[31] Kun Ji, Yefei Ren, and Ruizhi Wen. Site classification for national strong motion observation network system (NSMONS) stations in China using an empirical H/V spectral ratio method, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences,2017,147:79–94.
[32] Hongwei Wang, Yefei Ren, and Ruizhi Wen. Source spectra of the 8 August 2017 Jiuzhaigou MS 7.0 earthquake and the quality factor of the epicenter area, Chinese Journal of Geophysics, 2017, 60(10): 4117-4123. (in Chinese)
2015
[33] Ruizhi Wen, Hongwei Wang, and Yefei Ren. Rupture directivity from strong-motion recordings of the 2013 Lushan aftershocks, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of American, 2015, 105(6): 3068-3082.
[34] Peibin Xu, Ruizhi Wen, Hongwei Wang, Kun Ji, and Yefei Ren. Characteristics of strong motions and damage implications of Ms6.5 Ludian earthquake on August 3, 2014, Earthquake Science, 2015, 28(1): 17-24.
2014
[35] Ruizhi Wen, and Yefei Ren. Strong-motion observations of the Lushan earthquake on 20 April 2013, Seismological Research Letters, 2014, 85(5): 1043-1055.
[36] Ruizhi Wen, Yefei Ren, Zhenghua Zhou, and Xiaojun Li. Temporary strong-motion observation network for Wenchuan aftershocks and site classification, Engineering Geology, 2014, 180: 130-144.
[37] Ren Yefei, Wen Ruizhi and Song Yuying. Recent progress of tsunami hazard mitigation in China, Episodes: Journal of International Geoscience, 2014, 37(4): 277-283.
[38] Yefei Ren, Ruizhi Wen, Baofeng Zhou, and Xutao Huang. The characteristics of strong ground motion of Lushan earthquake on April 20, 2013, Chinese Journal of Geophysics, 2014, 57(6): 1836-1846. (in Chinese)
2013
[39] Ren Yefei, Wen Ruizhi, Hiroaki Yamanaka and Toshihide Kashima. Site effects by generalized inversion technique using strong motion recordings of the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake, Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Vibration, 2013, 12(2): 165-184.
[40] Yefei Ren, Kun Ji, Ruizhi Wen and Xutao Huang. Field survey around strong motion stations and its implications on the seismic intensity in the Lushan earthquake on April 20, 2013, Earthquake Science, 2013, 26(3-4): 241-250.
2011
[41] Ruizhi Wen, Yefei Ren, and Dacheng Shi. Improved HVSR site classification method for free-field strong motion stations validated with Wenchuan aftershock recordings, Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Vibration, 2011, 10: 325-337.
2010
[42] Ruizhi Wen, Yefei Ren, Zhenghua Zhou, and Dacheng Shi. Preliminary site classification of free-field strong motion stations based on Wenchuan earthquake records, Earthquake Science, 2010, 23(1): 101-110.
[43] Yefei Ren, Ruizhi Wen, Baofeng Zhou, and Dacheng Shi. Deterministic analysis of the tsunami hazard in China, Science of Tsunami Hazards, 2010, 29(1): 32-42.