An identification procedure of soil profile characteristics from two free field acclerometer records

Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 431-438

  Harichane, Z ^a   Afra, Hamid ^b   Elachachi, S M ^c  

^a HASSIBA BENBOUALI UNIVERSITY OF CHLEF   (Algeria)

^b National Center of Studies and Integrated Research on Building Engineering (CNERIB)   (Algeria)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DES SCIENCES ET DE LA TECHNOLOGIE D ORAN MOHAMED BOUDIAF   (Algeria)

Author keywords

Amplification function; Soil profile characteristics; Strong ground motion; System identification

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETERS; AMPLIFICATION; DAMPING; EARTHQUAKES; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; OPTIMIZATION; SHEAR WAVES;

DAMPING RATIO; GARNER VALLEY DOWN HOLE ARRAY (GVDA); SHEAR WAVE VELOCITY; SOIL AMPLIFICATION FUNCTION;

SOILS;

EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING;

EID: 22944461733     PISSN: 02677261     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soildyn.2005.04.001     Document Type: Article

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