An empirical method to estimate shear wave velocity of soils in the New Madrid seismic zone

Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 399-408

  Wei, B Z ^a   Pezeshk, S ^a   Chang, T S ^b   Hall, K H ^c   Liu, H P ^d  

^a University of Memphis   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

^c Hall Blake and Associates   (United States)

^d U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

New Madrid; S wave; Soil; SPT value; Velocity

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; ELASTIC WAVES; NUMERICAL METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PRESSURE EFFECTS; SEISMOLOGY; SOIL TESTING; SOILS; VELOCITY; WATER;

EMPIRICAL METHOD; NEW MADRID SEISMIC ZONE; SHEAR WAVE VELOCITY; STANDARD PENETRATION TEST; VOID RATIO; WATER TABLE;

SOIL MECHANICS;

S WAVE; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SOIL; STANDARD PENETRATION TEST;

USA, NEW MADRID SEISMIC ZONE;

EID: 0030208663     PISSN: 02677261     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0267-7261(96)00014-0     Document Type: Article

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