A comparison of four geophysical methods for determining the shear wave velocity of soils

Environmental and Engineering Geoscience

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 11-23

  Anderson, Neil ^a   Thitimakorn, Thanop ^a   Ismail, Ahmed ^b   Hoffman, David ^c  

^a MISSOURI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b ILLINOIS STATE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c Missouri University of Science and Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Crosshole; Multichannel analysis of surface waves; Refraction microtremor; Seismic cone penetrometer test

Indexed keywords

GEOPHYSICS; GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING; SHEAR WAVES; SOILS; SURFACE WAVES; VELOCITY CONTROL;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CONE PENETRATION TEST; MICROTREMOR; S-WAVE; SEISMIC METHOD; SEISMIC REFRACTION; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL CLASSIFICATION; WAVE VELOCITY;

MISSISSIPPI EMBAYMENT; MISSOURI; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 36148982578     PISSN: 10787275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gseegeosci.13.1.11     Document Type: Article

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