Effect of soil stiffness in the attenuation of Rayleigh-wave motions from field measurements

Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 277-288

  Athanasopoulos, G A ^a   Pelekis, P C ^a   Anagnostopoulos, G A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b Berkeley   (United States)

Author keywords

Attenuation; Low amplitude shear modulus; Low amplitude shear wave velocity; Material damping; Rayleigh waves; SASW method

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; DAMPING; ELASTIC MODULI; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; IMPACT TESTING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SHEAR WAVES; STIFFNESS; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

RAYLEIGH WAVES; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS OF SURFACE WAVES (SASW);

SOIL MECHANICS;

RAYLEIGH WAVE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC WAVE; SOIL DYNAMICS; STIFFNESS; WAVE ATTENUATION;

GREECE;

EID: 0342298611     PISSN: 02677261     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0267-7261(00)00009-9     Document Type: Article

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