The occurrence of an increasing number of natural hazards all over the world and their various effects on individuals, societies and modern economies is one of the major challenges for future decades. The master course in "Natural Hazards Mitigation in Structural Engineering" faces this challenge by providing indispensable tools for taking into account those phenomena in the different design processes in civil engineering. Thereby, the master course aims at combining practical structural engineering with state of the art concepts regarding computational mechanics, dynamics and probability theory/stochastic analysis. Consequently, the master course provides key qualifications for innovative work in the field of earthquake, flood and wind engineering and offers an international setting in which students will achieve both technical success and personal advancement.
Main areas covered by the master course in "Natural Hazards Mitigation in Structural Engineering" are earthquake engineering, soil dynamics, structural dynamics, computer methods in non-linear structural engineering, safety and risk assessment, as well as constitutive modeling of materials under cyclic and dynamic loads. The course program covers, thereby, both theoretical and application orientated topics.
