A bender element system for measuring shear wave velocities in centrifuge models

Physical Modelling in Geotechnics, 6th ICPMG'06 - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Physical Modelling in Geotechnics

Volumn 1-2, Issue , 2006, Pages 165-170

  Brandenberg, S J ^a   Choi, S ^b   Kutter, B L ^b   Wilson, D W ^b   Santamarina, J C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT VIBRATIONS; ANALOG FILTERS; BAND PASS; BENDER ELEMENTS; CENTRIFUGE MODELS; DIGITAL FILTERING; HIGH VOLTAGE POWER SUPPLY; MULTI-RECEIVER; MULTISOURCES; PHASE DISTORTIONS; SHEAR WAVE VELOCITY; SIGNAL STACKING; TRANSMITTED SIGNAL; TRAVEL TIME;

BANDPASS FILTERS; CENTRIFUGATION; SHEAR WAVES; SIGNAL RECEIVERS;

CENTRIFUGES;

EID: 84863237381     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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