Improvement of HVSR technique by wavelet analysis

Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 321-327

  Carniel, Roberto ^a   Malisan, Petra ^a   Barazza, Fausto ^a   Grimaz, Stefano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Nakamura spectral ratio; Seismic risk; Site effects; Wavelet analysis

Indexed keywords

COST FUNCTIONS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; WAVELET ANALYSIS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

HORIZONTAL TO VERTICAL SPECTRAL RATIO; NAKAMURA SPECTRAL RATIO; SEISMIC RISK; SITE EFFECTS;

SEISMOLOGY;

ALGORITHM; ESTIMATION METHOD; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; SEISMICITY; SITE EFFECT; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; TRANSFORM; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

EID: 38149090977     PISSN: 02677261     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soildyn.2007.06.006     Document Type: Article

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