Abstract:The special soils, which includes loess, frozen soil, soft soil, and swelling soil, distribut widely in China, and are easy to cause disasters. For their particular microstructure, during dynamic loading the responses of special soils are unique and complicate. In recent yeas the dynamic problems of special soils have been the focal points in the field of special soils engineering. In this paper, the history and recent advance of special soil dynamics are reviewed. On this basis the future development strategy of the field is discussed, some study problems are put forward.