VS30 estimates using constrained H/V measurements

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 99, Issue 2 A, 2009, Pages 761-773

  Castellaro, Silvia ^a   Mulargia, Francesco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DETECTING DEVIATIONS; DIRECT DRILLING; EXPERIMENTAL CURVES; GEOLOGICAL MODELS; GEOLOGICAL SETTING; GEOTECHNICAL DATA; HORIZONTAL-TO-VERTICAL SPECTRAL RATIOS; KEY PARAMETERS; LOVE WAVE; MICROTREMOR; RANDOM SOURCES; RAYLEIGH; RAYLEIGH-WAVE PHASE VELOCITY; SEISMIC CODE; SEISMIC MICROZONATION; SHEAR-WAVE VELOCITY; SOIL MODEL; SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATION; SUPERFICIAL LAYERS; WAVEFIELD;

GEOLOGIC MODELS; SEISMOLOGY; SOILS; STRATIGRAPHY;

CURVE FITTING;

ERROR CORRECTION; ESTIMATION METHOD; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LOVE WAVE; MICROTREMOR; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; PARAMETERIZATION; PHASE VELOCITY; RAYLEIGH WAVE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC REFRACTION; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SUBSOIL; THEORETICAL STUDY; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; WAVE FIELD;

EID: 67649934443     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120080179     Document Type: Article

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