Application of the coupled local minimizers method to the optimization problem in the spectral analysis of surface waves method

Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering

Volumn 134, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1541-1553

  Degrande, Geert ^a   Badsar, Sayed Ali ^a   Lombaert, Geert ^a   Schevenels, Mattias ^a   Teughels, Anne ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b TRACTEBEL ENGINEERING   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Half space; Layered soils; Optimization; Shear waves; Velocity

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; CURVE FITTING; DISPERSION (WAVES); ELASTIC WAVES; FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUID MECHANICS; FORESTRY; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; GRADIENT METHODS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; OPTIMIZATION; SEDIMENTATION; SHEAR WAVES; SOILS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS; SPEECH; SURFACE WAVES; TESTING; WATER WAVES; WAVES;

ALLUVIAL SEDIMENTS; COUPLED LOCAL MINIMIZERS; CROSS HOLE; DESIGN VARIABLES; DISPERSION CURVES; GLOBAL MINIMUM; GRADIENT-BASED; HALF SPACE; HALF SPACES; IN-SITU DATA; IN-SITU EXPERIMENTS; INVERSION ALGORITHMS; LAYERED SOILS; LOCAL ALGORITHMS; LOCAL OPTIMIZATIONS; NON-LINEAR LEAST SQUARES; OBJECTIVE FUNCTION; OPTIMIZ ATION PROBLEMS; SASW METHOD; SEARCH MECHANISMS; SHALLOW SOIL LAYERS; SHEAR WAVE VELOCITIES; SMALL STRAINS; SOIL CHARACTERISTICS; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS OF SURFACE WAVES; SYNCHRONIZATION CONSTRAINTS; TEST RESULTS; TEST SITES; VELOCITY;

GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION;

ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; COUPLING; DYNAMIC ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GENETIC ALGORITHM; INVERSE PROBLEM; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; OPTIMIZATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; S-WAVE; SHALLOW SOIL; SURFACE WAVE; VELOCITY PROFILE; WAVE VELOCITY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; PIEDMONT [ITALY]; SALUGGIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; VERCELLI;

EID: 52649171403     PISSN: 10900241     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)1090-0241(2008)134:10(1541)     Document Type: Article

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