Array performances for ambient vibrations on a shallow structure and consequences over Vs inversion

Journal of Seismology

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-19

  Wathelet, Marc ^a   Jongmans, Denis ^a   Ohrnberger, Matthias ^b   Bonnefoy Claudet, Sylvette ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^c INSTITUT DE RADIOPROTECTION ET DE SÛRETÉ NUCLÉAIRE IRSN   (France)

Author keywords

Ambient vibrations; Auto correlation; Frequency wave number; Inversion; Neighbourhood algorithm; Surface waves

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; AMPLITUDE; ARRAY; DATA INVERSION; ESTIMATION METHOD; GEOMETRY; MICROTREMOR; S-WAVE; SURFACE WAVE; VELOCITY PROFILE; WAVE DISPERSION; WAVE FIELD; WAVE VELOCITY;

EID: 38349131725     PISSN: 13834649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10950-007-9067-x     Document Type: Article

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