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Effects of site stiffness and source to receiver distance on surface wave tests' results

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In this article, surface wave tests were performed on four different sites by dropping freely a 65 kg mass from a height of 5 m. The receivers were kept far away from the source to eliminate the arrival of body waves.
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This article is published in Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering.The article was published on 2015-10-01. It has received 17 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Surface wave & Wavelength.

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Resolving phase wrapping by using sliding transform for generation of dispersion curves

TL;DR: This work has developed a new method that is fast, accurate, and generally resolves the unwrapping of phase with the use of just two sensors, provided the signal-to-noise ratio remains high.
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Predominant modes for Rayleigh wave propagation using the dynamic stiffness matrix approach

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used the dynamic stiffness matrix (DSM) approach to find the predominant mode in a dispersion plot and compared the results obtained with those reported in the literature.
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Quantitative Assessment of the Pavement Modulus and Surface Crack using the Rayleigh Wave Dispersion Curve

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assess the impact of surface cracks on the integrity of asphalt pavement structures, the durability of the pavement, and driving safety, and assess the extent of cracking distress.
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A faster scheme to generate multimodal dispersion plots for Rayleigh wave propagation

TL;DR: In this article, a faster computational scheme is proposed to determine multimodal dispersion plots using the stiffness matrix method (SMM) for Rayleigh wave propagation in horizontally layered ground media.
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Characterization of In Situ Modulus of Asphalt Pavement and Its Relation to Cracking Performance Using SASW Method

TL;DR: In this paper, the modulus modulus is defined as the change and decay of pavement modulus under the same condition and could be considered an indicator of pavement performance deterioration, whereas a nondest...
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The Dispersion of Surface Waves on Multilayered Media

TL;DR: In this paper, a matrix formalism developed by W. T. Thomson is used to obtain the phase velocity dispersion equations for elastic surface waves of Rayleigh and Love type on multilayered solid media.
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Multichannel analysis of surface waves

TL;DR: In this article, a multichannel shot gather is decomposed into a swept-frequency record, allowing the fast generation of an accurate dispersion curve, which can then be examined and its effects appraised in both frequency and offset space.
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Transmission of Elastic Waves through a Stratified Solid Medium

TL;DR: In this article, the transmission of a plane elastic wave at oblique incidence through a stratified solid medium consisting of any number of parallel plates of different material and thickness is studied theoretically.
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Estimation of near‐surface shear‐wave velocity by inversion of Rayleigh waves

TL;DR: In this paper, an iterative solution technique to the weighted equation proved very effective in the high frequency range when using the Levenberg-Marquardt and singular value decomposition techniques.
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Vibrations of soils and foundations

TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe methods of analysis and design of dynamically loaded foundations, which depend on the design criteria, applied forces, soil response, and analytical procedures for relating these quantities.
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