Neural networks for rapid reduction interpretation of spectral analysis of surface waves results

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 1868, 2004, Pages 150-155

  Nazarian, Soheil ^a   Abdallah, Imad N ^a   Yuan, Deren ^a  

^a University of Texas at El Paso   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; NEURAL NETWORKS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PAVEMENTS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SENSORS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

INVERSION PROCESSES; NONDESTRUCTIVE TESTING (NDT); SEISMIC METHODS; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS OF SURFACE WAVES (SASW);

SURFACE WAVES;

EID: 10944232644     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/1868-16     Document Type: Article

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