Non-uniqueness in surface-wave inversion and consequences on seismic site response analyses

Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 982-993

  Foti, S ^a   Comina, C ^a,b   Boiero, D ^a   Socco, L V ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Inverse problems; SASW; Seismic site response; Site characterization; Surface waves

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; AMPLIFICATION; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; EARTHQUAKES; FLUID DYNAMICS; SEISMIC RESPONSE; SHEAR WAVES; SOILS; STATISTICAL TESTS; SURFACE TESTING; SURFACE WAVES; WATER WAVES;

DATA UNCERTAINTIES; DISPERSION CURVES; EQUIVALENT SHEARS; EXPERIMENTAL DATUM; INVERSE PROBLEM SOLUTIONS; INVERSION PROBLEMS; MODEL PARAMETERIZATION; MONTE CARLO APPROACHES; NON UNIQUENESS; NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; ONE-DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS; SASW; SEISMIC SITE RESPONSE; SHEAR-WAVE VELOCITIES; SITE AMPLIFICATIONS; SITE CHARACTERIZATION; SOIL PROFILES; SURFACE-WAVE; TESTING METHODOLOGIES;

INVERSE PROBLEMS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; INVERSE ANALYSIS; INVERSE PROBLEM; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; PARAMETERIZATION; RESPONSE ANALYSIS; S-WAVE; SITE CHARACTERIZATION; SURFACE WAVE; VELOCITY PROFILE; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

EID: 61749089454     PISSN: 02677261     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soildyn.2008.11.004     Document Type: Article

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