A new backcalculation procedure based on dispersion analysis of FWD time-history deflections and surface wave measurements using artificial neural networks

ASTM Special Technical Publication

Volumn , Issue 1375, 1999, Pages 297-312

  Kim, Y Richard ^a   Xu, Bing ^a   Kim, Yongon ^b  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Artificial neural network; Backcalculation; Deflection time history; Depth to a stiff layer; Dispersion; FWD; Hankel transform; Inversion; Layer moduli; Pavements; Surface wave

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038931076     PISSN: 00660558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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