Improving the uniqueness of surface wave inversion using multiple-mode dispersion data

International Journal of Geomechanics

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 333-343

  Supranata, Yosep E ^a   Kalinski, Michael E ^b   Ye, Qiang ^c  

^a Devine Tarbell and Associates Inc   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Earthquake engineering; Shear waves; Soil dynamics; Surface waves; Velocity

Indexed keywords

DISPERSION (WAVES); EARTHQUAKES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; SHEAR WAVES; STIFFNESS; SURFACE WAVES;

DYNAMIC STIFFNESS MATRIX METHOD; EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING; LEVENBERG-MARQUARDT METHOD; SOIL DYNAMICS; SURFACE WAVE DISPERSION;

SOIL MECHANICS;

DATA INVERSION; EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING; S-WAVE; SOIL DYNAMICS; SURFACE WAVE; WAVE DISPERSION; WAVE VELOCITY;

EID: 34648847322     PISSN: 15323641     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)1532-3641(2007)7:5(333)     Document Type: Article

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