From surface wave inversion to seismic site response prediction: Beyond the 1D approach

Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering

Volumn 36, Issue , 2012, Pages 38-51

  Boaga, Jacopo ^a   Renzi, Stefano ^a   Vignoli, Giulio ^a,b   Deiana, Rita ^a   Cassiani, Giorgio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ERRORS; DATA SETS; DISPERSION CURVES; ELASTIC PARAMETERS; FORWARD MODELS; LATERAL HETEROGENEITY; MODEL ERRORS; MODEL PARAMETERIZATION; MOTION PREDICTION; MULTI-OFFSET; PHASE ANALYSIS; SEISMIC GROUND MOTIONS; SEISMIC SITES; SHEAR-WAVE VELOCITY; SITE RESPONSE; SITE RESPONSE ANALYSIS; SOIL STRUCTURE; SURFACE WAVE INVERSION; VELOCITY PROFILES; VELOCITY RECONSTRUCTION; WAVE MEASUREMENT;

GEOLOGIC MODELS; SEISMOLOGY; SHEAR WAVES; SURFACE WAVES; VELOCITY;

VELOCITY DISTRIBUTION;

DATA INTERPRETATION; DATA INVERSION; DATA SET; GROUND MOTION; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; PREDICTION; RAYLEIGH WAVE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC NOISE; SEISMIC RESPONSE; SITE INVESTIGATION; SOIL STRUCTURE; SURFACE WAVE; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; VELOCITY PROFILE; WAVE DISPERSION; WAVE VELOCITY;

EID: 84857052149     PISSN: 02677261     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soildyn.2012.01.001     Document Type: Article

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