Providing NEHRP soil classification from the direct interpretation of effective rayleigh-wave dispersion curves

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 100, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 3284-3294

  Albarello, Dario ^a   Gargani, Gianfranco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

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EID: 78650106578     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120100052     Document Type: Note

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