Effects of underground cavities on Rayleigh waves-Field and numerical experiments

Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 300-313

  Nasseri Moghaddam, A ^a   Cascante, G ^b   Phillips, C ^c   Hutchinson, D J ^d  

^a Inspec Sol Inc   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c GOLDER ASSOCIATES LTD   (Canada)

^d QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Finite difference method; Frequency domain analysis; Geophysical testing method; MASW test; Rayleigh waves; Void detection

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; GEOPHYSICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICAL TESTING;

GEOPHYSICAL TESTING METHOD; RAYLEIGH WAVES; UNDERGROUND CAVITIES; VOID DETECTION;

SURFACE WAVES;

DISPLACEMENT; EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; GEOPHYSICAL METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; RAYLEIGH WAVE; VOID;

EID: 33845399453     PISSN: 02677261     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soildyn.2006.09.002     Document Type: Article

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