Soil characteristics and site effect assessment in the city of Delhi (India) using H/V and f-k methods

Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 591-599

  Mundepi, A K ^a   Galiana Merino, J J ^b   Kamal, ^c   Lindholm, Conrad ^d  

^a WADIA INSTITUTE OF HIMALAYAN GEOLOGY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ROORKEE   (India)

^d NONE

Author keywords

FK technique; H V method; Seismic microzonation

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT NOISE; AMBIENT NOISE MEASUREMENTS; ARRAY MEASUREMENTS; DELHI , INDIA; DISPERSION CURVES; EARTHQUAKE DAMAGES; FUNDAMENTAL RESONANCE FREQUENCY; LOCAL SITE CONDITION; NEIGHBORHOOD ALGORITHM; RESONANCE FREQUENCIES; S-WAVE VELOCITY; SEDIMENT LAYERS; SEISMIC HAZARDS; SEISMIC MICROZONATION; SITE EFFECTS; SOIL CHARACTERISTICS; SOIL SEDIMENTS; SOIL THICKNESS; THREE-COMPONENT;

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; ESTIMATION; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PARTICLE DETECTORS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; SHEAR WAVES; SOILS;

SOIL SURVEYS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALGORITHM; AMBIENT NOISE; ARRAY; EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; SEISMIC HAZARD; SEISMIC METHOD; SEISMIC RESPONSE; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SEISMIC WAVE; SEISMIC ZONE; SITE EFFECT; SOIL ANALYSIS; URBAN AREA; VELOCITY PROFILE; ZONATION;

DELHI; INDIA;

EID: 77951637595     PISSN: 02677261     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soildyn.2010.01.016     Document Type: Article

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