Correction of highly noisy strong motion records using a modified wavelet de-noising method

Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering

Volumn 30, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1168-1181

  Ansari, Anooshiravan ^a   Noorzad, Asadollah ^b   Zafarani, Hamid ^a   Vahidifard, Hessam ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING AND SEISMOLOGY IIEES   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION-TIME HISTORY; ADAPTIVE WAVELETS; CORRECTION FUNCTION; DENOISING METHODS; DISPLACEMENT RESPONSE SPECTRA; EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING; ENGINEERING INTERESTS; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; FREQUENCY RANGES; GROUND MOTIONS; HIGH ENERGY; NON-LINEAR; NONSTATIONARY; NONSTATIONARY NOISE; RECORDED SIGNALS; STRONG MOTION RECORDS; TIME DOMAIN; TIME FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; WAVELET DENOISING;

CIVIL ENGINEERING; EARTHQUAKES; ENGINEERING GEOLOGY; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

ACCELEROMETER; EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING; GROUND MOTION; SEISMIC NOISE; SEISMOLOGY; WAVELET;

EID: 77955512941     PISSN: 02677261     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soildyn.2010.04.025     Document Type: Article

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