ModelHVSR-A Matlab® tool to model horizontal-to-vertical spectral ratio of ambient noise

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 34, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1514-1526

  Herak, Marijan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

HVSR; Microseismic noise; Soil amplification; Soil response

Indexed keywords

MATLAB;

AMBIENT NOISE; AMPLIFICATION; LINEAR PROGRAMING; MICROTREMOR; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; P-WAVE; PARALLEL COMPUTING; PEAK ACCELERATION; Q FACTOR; S-WAVE; SEISMIC NOISE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 48749116180     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2007.07.009     Document Type: Article

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