Analysis of dispersion curves of Rayleigh waves in the frequency-wavenumber domain

Canadian Geotechnical Journal

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 583-598

  Lu, Laiyu ^a,b   Zhang, Bixing ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ACOUSTICS   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Dispersion curves; Frequency wavenumber domain; Mode jumping; Rayleigh waves; SASW

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RAYLEIGH FADING; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

DISPERSION CURVES; RAYLEIGH WAVES; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS OF SURFACE WAVES (SASW);

SURFACE WAVES;

GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING; RAYLEIGH WAVE; SURFACE WAVE; WAVE DISPERSION;

EID: 8744255412     PISSN: 00083674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/T04-005     Document Type: Article

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