Research on the middle-of-receiver-spread assumption of the MASW method

Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 71-79

  Luo, Yinhe ^a   Xia, Jianghai ^b   Liu, Jiangping ^a   Xu, Yixian ^a   Liu, Qingsheng ^a  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Dispersion curve; Geophone spread; MASW; Shear wave velocity; Source geophysical structure

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; DISPERSION (WAVES); FLUID DYNAMICS; GEOPHYSICS; SHEAR WAVES; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; SURFACE WAVES; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

DISPERSION CURVE; GEOPHONE SPREAD; MASW; SHEAR-WAVE VELOCITY; SOURCE GEOPHYSICAL STRUCTURE;

VELOCITY;

DATA SET; ESTIMATION METHOD; GEOPHONE; GEOPHYSICAL ARRAY; INVERSE PROBLEM; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; RAYLEIGH WAVE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC VELOCITY; VELOCITY PROFILE; WAVE DISPERSION;

EID: 54949110234     PISSN: 02677261     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soildyn.2008.01.009     Document Type: Article

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