Application of Surface-Wave Methods for Seismic Site Characterization

Surveys in Geophysics

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 777-825

  Foti, Sebastiano ^a   Parolai, Stefano ^b   Albarello, Dario ^c   Picozzi, Matteo ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Inverse problems; Rayleigh waves; Seismic characterization; Seismic noise; Shear wave velocity; Surface waves

Indexed keywords

DISPERSION ANALYSIS; DISPERSIVE PROPAGATION; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FUTURE TRENDS; H/V SPECTRAL RATIO; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIA; PASSIVE SURFACE WAVES; RAYLEIGH; SEISMIC NOISE; SEISMIC SITES; SHEAR WAVE VELOCITY; SHEAR WAVE VELOCITY MODELS; STATE OF THE ART; SURFACE WAVE DISPERSION;

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; DATA HANDLING; DISPERSION (WAVES); INVERSE PROBLEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SEISMOLOGY; SHEAR WAVES; SOILS; SURFACE WAVES;

SHEAR FLOW;

INVERSE PROBLEM; NUMERICAL MODEL; RAYLEIGH WAVE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC NOISE; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SURFACE WAVE; WAVE DISPERSION; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 80053915701     PISSN: 01693298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10712-011-9134-2     Document Type: Article

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