Author: Rüdiger Meiswinkel

The authors are extensively involved in planning, operating and inspecting, designing new buildings, retrofits and conversions and updating specific nuclear power rules. Dr.-Ing. habil. Rüdiger Meiswinkel has been responsible for construction engineering at E.ON Kernkraft Gmb H, Hanover/ Germany from 2001 to 2012 and operates since 2012 the MBI Bautechnik Gmb H, Enkenbach-Alsenborn/ Germany. He is a member of Kerntechnische Gesellschaft e. V. (Nuclear Association) and of Deutsche Gesellschaft für Erdbebeningenieurwesen und Baudynamik e. V. DGEB (German Association of Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics). Dr.-Ing. Julian Meyer is head of HOCHTIEF Consult IKS Energy, Frankfurt/ Germany. He is a member of technical standard committees and project groups, inter alia with regard to design and construction of nuclear power plants. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jürgen Schnell is director of the Institute of concrete structures and structural engineering at Technical University Kaiserslautern/ Germany. He is a member of numerous German and European technical standard committees and committees of independent experts. Since 2012 he is head of the German Committee for Structural Concrete (DAf Stb).