Applications of love wave dispersion for improved shear-wave velocity imaging

Journal of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 135-150

  Safani, Jamhir ^a   O'Neill, Adam ^a   Matsuoka, Toshifumi ^a   Sanada, Yoshinori ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; CURVE FITTING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POISSON RATIO; SEISMOGRAPHS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

FLUVIAL SEDIMENTS; HALF-SPACES; LOVE WAVE DISPERSION; VERTICAL FRACTURE;

SURFACE WAVES;

LOVE WAVE; WAVE DISPERSION;

EID: 21644475036     PISSN: 10831363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/JEEG10.2.135     Document Type: Article

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