Cross-axis sensitivity of accelerographs with pendulum like transducers-mathematical model and the inverse problem

Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1031-1051

  Todorovska, Maria I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA PROCESSING; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TRANSDUCERS;

ACCELEROGRAPHS; CROSS-AXIS SENSITIVITY; PENDULUM LIKE TRANSDUCERS;

SEISMOGRAPHS;

EARTHQUAKE; INSTRUMENTATION; SEISMOMETRY;

EID: 0032193575     PISSN: 00988847     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9845(199810)27:10<1031::AID-EQE766>3.0.CO;2-1     Document Type: Article

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