Abstract: For evaluating the performance of equipment for earthquake relief, and scientific ally planning of the equipment development, construct the index system of the performance evaluation of earthquake relief equipment basing on the goal of “Integration of on-war and off-war, versatile with strong capability, fast respond with high- efficient rescue”, considering the earthquake relief task. Define the index system weight through applying the analytic hierarchy process and using the utility function to combine the quantitative and qualitative index. Results showed that, the performance and evaluation result of rescue equipment system is medium which accords with reality of the army; Although there are many earthquake relief equipment arranged for the rescue unit, many performance like the varieties of detection equipment, the ranging accuracy of search equipment, the weight of shore equipment, the largest removal distance and weight of obstacle removal equipment, and the constant working time of lighting equipment should be improved. The evaluation results accord with the real condition.

Key words: fire safety, earthquake relief, equipment performance evaluation, utility function method