Earthquake risk assessment of historical structures [Elektronische Ressource] / by Marcel Urban

aay/gntiedEarthquake Risk Assessment of Historical StructuresDissertationsubmittedtoa nd approvedbtheD epartment of Architecture, CivilE ngineering andE nvironmentalS ciencesof theT echnische UniversitäCarolo-Wilhelminzu BraunschweiantheFaculty of EngineeringDepartment of CivilEngineeringof theUniversityofF lorencin candidacy forthe degree ofDoktor-Ingenieur (Dr.-Ing.)*)Dottore di Ricerca in Risk Management on theBuilt EnviromentbyMarcel UrbafromWickede,GermanySubmittedon2 2O ctober2006Oral examinationon1 5D ecember 2006Professorala dvisors Prof.U do PeilProf.G ianni Bartol2007*) Either theG ermanort he Italianf ormofthe title maybeu sed.s/Thed issertationisp ublished in an electronic form by theBraunschweigu niversitylibrary at theaddreshttp://www.biblio.tu-bs.de/ediss/datann.krlorrf.,g.es.dsAcknowlegdementIt has becomeat rueh abit andas mall masterpiecetow ritet he acknowlegdements fors uchaw orka ndIc annot withstandtoo ffer my humble contribution. Writing this work has been al ongw ay to goNearly four yearsh avep assed since Is tarted to work on this topic. Thesey earsw eref illedw ithaextremei ntensity on both levels,ascientific and am orep ersonal pointofv iew. Throughout this time,eachd ay had itso wn little episodeg rowing into history. Consequently,alargen umberofs tories,whicha re most certainlyw orth to remember,r emains.