Abstract: In the naval warfare,the undewater explosion load is one of the main threats to the ship structures.However,the structural responses are quite complex,which can be devided into global response and local response.The advances in the research of dynamic response of ship structures are summarized.With different methods,the responses of local structure and global structure are analyzed respectively from the aspects of theoretical,expe rimental and simulation.Some of deficiencies currently in the research works as well as problems need further study are put forwards.