Fast stacking and phase corrections of shear wave signals in a noisy environment

Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering

Volumn 134, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1154-1165

  Brandenberg, Scott J ^a   Kutter, Bruce L ^b   Wilson, Daniel W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California Davis   (United States)

Author keywords

Centrifuge; Piezoelectricity; Shear waves; Soil modulus; Soil structure interaction; Wave velocity

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; ELASTIC WAVES; FLOW INTERACTIONS; GEOLOGIC MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; REFLECTION; SHEAR WAVES; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SOILS; TIME DELAY;

BACKGROUND NOISES; BENDER ELEMENTS; CENTRIFUGE; CLOSED-FORM ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS; DATA VECTORS; EXCITATION PULSES; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; HIGH-QUALITY; NATURAL PERIOD; NOISY ENVIRONMENTS; NUMERICAL SOLUTIONS; PHASE CORRECTIONS; PIEZOELECTRICITY; SHEAR WAVE VELOCITIES; SIGNAL QUALITY; SIGNAL STACKING; SINGLE-DEGREE-OF-FREEDOM OSCILLATORS; SOIL MODULUS; SOIL-STRUCTURE INTERACTION; TIME DELAYING; TRANSIENT BEHAVIORS; TRANSIENT CHANGES; TRANSIENT RESPONSES; WAVE SIGNALS; WAVE VELOCITY;

SIGNAL RECEIVERS;

ALGORITHM; CENTRIFUGE; PIEZOELECTRICITY; S-WAVE; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SOIL-STRUCTURE INTERACTION; STACKING; WAVE VELOCITY;

EID: 48449088187     PISSN: 10900241     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)1090-0241(2008)134:8(1154)     Document Type: Article

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