Simultaneous measurement and inversion of surface wave dispersion and attenuation curves

Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering

Volumn 22, Issue 9-12, 2002, Pages 923-930

  Lai, Carlo G ^a   Rix, Glenn J ^a,b   Foti, Sebastiano ^b,c   Roma, Vitantonio ^c,d  

^a Studio Geotecnico Italiano   (Italy)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^d Geodata   (Italy)

Author keywords

Attenuation; Dispersiion; Rayleigh waves; Shear damping ratio; Shear wave velocity; Simultaneous inversion; Simultaneous measurement; Spectral analysis of surface waves; Surface waves

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; DISPERSION (WAVES); SOILS; SURFACE WAVES;

MATERIAL DAMPING RATIO; SHEAR WAVE VELOCITY;

EARTHQUAKES;

RAYLEIGH WAVE; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; SEISMIC WAVE; SURFACE WAVE; WAVE DISPERSION; WAVE VELOCITY;

EID: 0036817106     PISSN: 02677261     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0267-7261(02)00116-1     Document Type: Article

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