Determination of Shallow Shear-Wave Velocity at Mississippi Embayment Sites Using Vertical Seismic Profiling Data

2007 ◽  
Vol 97 (2) ◽  
pp. 614-623 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Ge ◽  
J. Pujol ◽  
S. Pezeshk ◽  
S. Stovall
Keyword(s):  
Shear Wave ◽  
Wave Velocity ◽  
Shear Wave Velocity ◽  
Mississippi Embayment ◽  
Seismic Profiling ◽  
Vertical Seismic Profiling

Deep Shear Wave Velocity Profiles from Surface Wave Measurements in the Mississippi Embayment

2007 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 791-808 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brent L. Rosenblad ◽  
Jianhua Li ◽  
Farn-Yuh Menq ◽  
Kenneth H. Stokoe
Keyword(s):  
Surface Wave ◽  
Shear Wave ◽  
Wave Velocity ◽  
Shear Wave Velocity ◽  
Site Response ◽  
Source Surface ◽  
Mississippi Embayment ◽  
Near Surface ◽  
Wave Measurements ◽  
Central United States

Shear wave velocity ( VS) profiles to depths of approximately 200 m were developed from active-source surface wave velocity measurements in the Mississippi Embayment region of the Central United States. Soil deposits in this region are hundreds of meters thick, but are poorly characterized at depths below 60 m. Measurements were performed at five locations in Arkansas and Tennessee with a maximum distance between sites of approximately 130 km. The median VS profile calculated from the five profiles is in good agreement with a generic reference VS profile for the Mississippi Embayment that has been used in recent site response studies. The near-surface VS profiles at the five sites were remarkably consistent with average shear wave velocities in the top 30 m ( VS30), varying by less than 10%. Increasing variability between the VS profiles was observed at greater depths. The variability between VS profiles was shown to be correlated with changes in lithology at two of the sites where nearby lithologic information was available.

Measuring shear and compression wave velocities of soil using bender–extender elements

2009 ◽  
Vol 46 (7) ◽  
pp. 792-812 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. C. Leong ◽  
J. Cahyadi ◽  
H. Rahardjo
Keyword(s):  
Shear Wave ◽  
Wave Velocity ◽  
Shear Wave Velocity ◽  
Compression Wave ◽  
Small Strain ◽  
Reliable Determination ◽  
Digital Oscilloscope ◽  
Compression Waves ◽  
Wave Velocities

Piezoceramic elements have been used for laboratory measurement of wave velocity in soil and rock specimens. Shear-wave piezoceramic elements (bender elements) are commonly used to measure shear wave velocity for the determination of small-strain shear modulus. Compression-wave piezoceramic elements (extender elements), on the other hand, are less commonly used as compression wave velocity is less frequently measured. In this paper, the performance of a pair of bender–extender elements for the determination of both shear and compression wave velocities is examined with respect to the resolution of the recorder, bender–extender element size. and excitation voltage frequency. The evaluation showed that the performance of the bender–extender elements test can be improved by considering the following conditions: (i) the digital oscilloscope used to record the bender–extender element signals should have a high analog to digital (A/D) conversion resolution; (ii) the size of the bender–extender elements plays an important role in the strength and quality of the receiver signal, especially for compression waves; and (iii) using a wave path length to wavelength ratio of 3.33 enables a more reliable determination of shear wave velocity.

Support vector regression based determination of shear wave velocity

2015 ◽  
Vol 125 ◽  
pp. 95-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Parisa Bagheripour ◽  
Amin Gholami ◽  
Mojtaba Asoodeh ◽  
Mohsen Vaezzadeh-Asadi
Keyword(s):  
Support Vector Regression ◽  
Shear Wave ◽  
Wave Velocity ◽  
Shear Wave Velocity ◽  
Support Vector
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