Influence of instruments on the H/V spectral ratios of ambient vibrations

Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 3-31

  Guillier, Bertrand ^a   Atakan, Kuvvet ^b   Chatelain, Jean Luc ^a   Havskov, Jens ^b   Ohrnberger, Matthias ^c   Cara, Fabrizio ^d   Duval, Anne Marie ^e   Zacharopoulos, Stratos ^f   Teves Costa, Paula ^g   Accera, C ^h   Alguacil, G ^h   Azzara, R ^h   Bard, P Y ^h   Blarel, F ^h   Borges, A ^h   Grandison, M ^h   Rao, S ^h   Theodulidis, N ^h   Tvedt, E ^h   Utheim, T ^h   Vidal, S ^h   Vollmer, D ^h   more..

^a UNIVERSITÉ GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b UiB   (Norway)

^c IGUP   (Germany)

^d ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^e CETE   (France)

^f Institute of Engineering Seismology and Earthquake Engineering Thessaloniki   (Greece)

^g ICTE UL   (Portugal)

^h NONE

Author keywords

H V technique; Instrumentation; Microtremors; Site effects

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETERS; FREQUENCY BANDS; SEISMOLOGY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSORS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

H/V TECHNIQUE; MICROTREMORS; SITE EFFECTS;

VIBRATION ANALYSIS;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; DIGITIZATION; MICROTREMOR; SEISMOGRAPH; SEISMOLOGY; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SITE EFFECT; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; VIBRATION; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

EID: 43449096945     PISSN: 1570761X     EISSN: 15731456     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10518-007-9039-0     Document Type: Article

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