University of Massachusetts Amherst ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst Open Access Dissertations 9-2012 Risk Quantification of Maple Trees Subjected to Wind Loading Cihan Ciftci University of Massachusetts Amherst,
[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/open_access_dissertations Part of the Chemical Engineering Commons Recommended Citation Ciftci, Cihan, "Risk Quantification of Maple Trees Subjected to Wind Loading" (2012). Open Access Dissertations. 635. https://doi.org/10.7275/3kmz-em54 https://scholarworks.umass.edu/open_access_dissertations/635 This Open Access Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst. It has been accepted for inclusion in Open Access Dissertations by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. RISK QUANTIFICATION OF MAPLE TREES SUBJECTED TO WIND LOADING A Dissertation Presented by CIHAN CIFTCI Submitted to the Graduate School of the University of Massachusetts Amherst in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY September 2012 Civil and Environmental Engineering © Copyright by CIHAN CIFTCI 2012 All Rights Reserved RISK QUANTIFICATION OF MAPLE TREES SUBJECTED TO WIND LOADING A Dissertation Presented by CIHAN CIFTCI Approved as to style and content by: _______________________________________ Sergio F. Brena, Co-chair _______________________________________ Brian Kane, Co-chair _______________________________________