Soil liquefaction around offshore pile foundations [Elektronische Ressource] : scale model investigations / by Katharina Kluge

Soil Liquefaction around Offshore Pile Foundations – Scale Model Investigations Dissertation submitted to and approved by the Faculty of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Environmental Sciences University of Braunschweig – Institute of Technology and the Faculty of Engineering University of Florence in candidacy for the degree of a Doktor-Ingenieur (Dr.-Ing.) / *)Dottore di Ricerca in Risk Management on the Built Environment by Katharina Kluge from Mainz, Germany Submitted on 10 October 2007 Oral examination on 23 November 2007 Professorial advisors Prof. Joachim Stahlmann Prof. Teresa Crespellani Prof. Giovanni Vannucchi 2008 *) Either the German or the Italian form of the title may be used. The dissertation is published in an electronic form by the Braunschweig university library at the address http://www.biblio.tu-bs.de/ediss/data To my parents, to my sister and to Robert Acknowledgements The present work was performed from 2003 to 2007, during my time as a member of the Inter-national Research Training Group “Risk Management of Natural and Civilization Hazards on Buildings and Infrastructure” at the Institut für Grundbau und Bodenmechanik of the Technical University of Braunschweig (Germany) and the Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile of the Uni-versity of Florence (Italy).