Errors in velocities and displacements deduced from accelerographs: An approach based on the theory of error propagation

Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 415-420

  Stiros, Stathis C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Acceleration; Accelerograph; Displacement; Error; Propagation; Sampling; Time series; Velocity

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; RANDOM ERRORS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VELOCITY;

THEORY OF ERROR PROPAGATION;

ACCELEROMETERS;

DISPLACEMENT; ERROR ANALYSIS; PEAK ACCELERATION; SAMPLING; SEISMIC NOISE; SIGNAL; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVE VELOCITY;

EID: 40849136299     PISSN: 02677261     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soildyn.2007.07.004     Document Type: Article

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