Yu-Cheng Hsu

Background:

Yu-Cheng Hsu (徐侑呈) is a Ph.D. student and Graduate Research Assistant in Department of Civil Engineering at the University of British Columbia (UBC). He received the degree of Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering (2016) and Master of Science (2018) from National Taiwan University, Taiwan.

E-mail: ychsu11@mail.ubc.ca

 

Ongoing Projects:

Seismic Design of Tall Reinforced Concrete Masonry Buildings

Hybrid Simulation on Reinforced Concrete Structures Retrofitted by RC Infilled Wall with Opening

CLT Panel Timber Connection Test

 

Awards:

Government Scholarship to Study Abroad (GSSA), MOE, Taiwan

Civil Engineering Excellence Awards (CIV-EX Awards)

Li, Yue-Feng Scholarship, Alumni Association of Department of Civil Engineering, NTU

National Taiwan University Presidential Award

 

Journal Publications:

Hsu, Y.-C., S. Mogili, R.-J. Tsai, and S.-J. Hwang. (2023) “Shear Strength Prediction of Reinforced Concrete Walls with Opening and Boundary Elements.” Journal of Structural Engineering, 149 (7): 04023084. American Society of Civil Engineers. https://doi.org/10.1061/JSENDH.STENG-11414.

Tsai, R-J., Hsu, Y-C., Hwang, S-J. (2021) “Prediction of Lateral Load-Displacement Curve of Reinforced Concrete Walls with Openings under Shear Failure.” ACI Structural Journal, 118 (5): 275–283. https://doi.org/10.14359/51732835

 

Conference Publications:

Hsu, Y.C., Yang, T.Y. and Brzev, S. (2024). “Macro-modeling of Flexure-dominant Slender Reinforced Masonry Shear Walls”, accepted by 18th WCEE, Milan, Italy

Hsu, Y.C., Yang, T.Y. and Brzev, S. (2023). “Seismic Design of Tall Reinforced Masonry Shear Walls”, in CCEE-PCEE 2023, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Hsu, Y.C.; Hsiao, F.P.; Haryanto, Y.; Weng, P.W.; Yang, T.Y. and Lin, C.C. (2023). “Hybrid Simulation of a Reinforced Concrete (RC) Building Retrofitted by Shear Wall with Opening”, in CCEE-PCEE 2023, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Hsu, Y-C., Dou, M., Yang, T.Y., Brzev, S. (2022) “Ultimate Drift Capacity of Flexure-Dominant Reinforced Concrete Masonry Shear Wall”, Proceedings of the Canadian Society of Civil Engineering Annual Conference 2022, Whistler, British Columbia, Canada, May 25th-28th, 2022

Hsu, Y-C., Yang T.Y., Brzev, S. (2021) “Seismic Behaviour of Tall Reinforced Masonry Buildings”, Proceedings of 14th Canadian Masonry Symposium, Montreal, Canada, May 16-19, 2021.

Hsu, Y-C., Tsai, R-J., Weng, P-W., Shen, W-C. and Hsiao, F-P. (2020). “A Hinge Model for Nonlinear Time-Domain Analysis of RC Structure by ETABS with Verification of Shake-Table Test”, Proceedings of 15th National Conference on Structural Engineering/5th National Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Tainan, Taiwan, September 2-4

Tsai, R-J., Hsu, Y-C., Hsiao, F-P., Weng, P-W. and Shen, W-C. (2020). “Taiwan Earthquake Assessment for Structure by Dynamic Analysis, TEASDA.”, Proceedings of 15th National Conference on Structural Engineering/5th National Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Tainan, Taiwan, September 2-4

Lee, Y-A., Tsai, R-J., Hsu, Y-C. and Hsiao, F-P. (2020). “Collapse Behavior of Reinforced Concrete Building under Near-fault Earthquake Effect”, Proceedings of 15th National Conference on Structural Engineering/5th National Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Tainan, Taiwan, September 2-4

Weng, P-W., Shen, W-C., Chuang K-J., Tsai, R-J., Hsu, Y-C., and Hwang, S-J. (2020). “Experimental Investigation of Reinforced Concrete Columns with Various Crosstie Configurations”, Proceedings of 15th National Conference on Structural Engineering/5th National Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Tainan, Taiwan, September 2-4

Hsu, Y-C., Hwang, S-J. (2018). “A Study of Lateral Load and Displacement Curves of Reinforced Concrete Wall with Openings”, Proceedings of 14th National Conference on Structural Engineering/4th National Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Taichung, Taiwan, November 6-8, 2018

 

Technical Report:

Hsio, F-P., Tsai, R-J., Weng P-W., Shen W-C., Hsu, Y-C., Chow, T-K., Weng Y-T., Chien W-Y., Lin, C-C., Liu H-J. (2021) “Taiwan Earthquake Assessment for RC Structure Dynamic Analysis (TEASDA 1.0)”, NCREE-21-001, Technical Report, National Center of Research on Earthquake Engineering, Taiwan, January.

 

Thesis:

Hsu, Y-C. (2018)”A Study of Lateral Load and Displacement Curves of Reinforced Concrete Wall with Openings”, Master thesis, Department of Civil Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, 264p. (in Mandarin)