Application of particle swarm optimization to interpret Rayleigh wave dispersion curves

X Song, L Tang, X Lv, H Fang, H Gu - Journal of Applied Geophysics, 2012 - Elsevier
Rayleigh waves have been used increasingly as an appealing tool to obtain near-surface
shear (S)-wave velocity profiles. However, inversion of Rayleigh wave dispersion curves is …

Exploring the model space and ranking a best class of models in surface-wave dispersion inversion: Application at European strong-motion sites

G Di Giulio, A Savvaidis, M Ohrnberger, M Wathelet… - Geophysics, 2012 - library.seg.org
The inversion of surface-wave dispersion curve to derive shear-wave velocity profile is a
very delicate process dealing with a nonunique problem, which is strongly dependent on the …

Characterization of a heterogeneous landfill using seismic and electrical resistivity data

LA Konstantaki, R Ghose, D Draganov, G Diaferia… - Geophysics, 2015 - library.seg.org
Understanding the processes occurring inside a landfill is important for improving the
treatment of landfills. Irrigation and recirculation of leachate are widely used in landfill …

Joint inversion of Rayleigh and Love wave dispersion curves for improving the accuracy of near-surface S-wave velocities

X Yin, H Xu, B Mi, X Hao, P Wang, K Zhang - Journal of Applied …, 2020 - Elsevier
High-frequency surface-wave techniques are extensively employed for the determination of
S-wave velocities of near-surface materials. The absence of the measured phase velocity …

[HTML][HTML] 水平层状模型中多模式瑞雷波和拉夫波相速度频散曲线的灵敏度分析

尹晓菲, 胥鸿睿, 郝晓菡, 孙石达, 王芃 - 石油地球物理勘探, 2020 - html.rhhz.net
以瑞雷波和拉夫波为主要研究对象的高频面波方法, 在地下水, 环境及工程等领域被广泛应用.
对于水平层状模型, 横波速度是影响多模式瑞雷波和拉夫波相速度频散曲线的最重要参数 …

Wave-equation dispersion inversion of Love waves

J Li, S Hanafy, Z Liu, GT Schuster - Geophysics, 2019 - library.seg.org
We present a theory for wave-equation inversion of Love-wave dispersion curves, in which
the misfit function is the sum of the squared differences between the wavenumbers along the …

Efficient computation of dispersion curves for multilayered waveguides and half-spaces

AV Astaneh, MN Guddati - Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and …, 2016 - Elsevier
Motivated by the need to compute dispersion curves for layered media in the contexts of
geophysical inversion and nondestructive testing, a novel discretization approach, termed …

Joint wave-equation inversion of Rayleigh and Love dispersion curves

J Li, C Zhang, S Hanafy, H Yu, L Bai - Geophysics, 2024 - library.seg.org
Wave-equation dispersion (WD) inversion techniques for surface waves have proven to be a
robust way to invert the S-wave velocity model. Unlike 1D dispersion curve inversion, WD …

[PDF][PDF] Geophysical characterization of seismic station sites in the United States—the importance of a flexible, multi-method approach

A Martin, A Yong, W Stephenson… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - wcee.nicee.org
Noninvasive geophysical site characterization methods were used in two recent projects to
obtain shear-wave velocity (VS) profiles to a minimum depth of 30 m and the time-averaged …

Characterizing the effects of survey parameters on experimental love wave multichannel analysis of surface wave (MASW) data

S Mahvelati, JT Coe, JE Nyquist - Pure and Applied Geophysics, 2021 - Springer
Rayleigh waves employed in engineering geophysical applications are typically generated
by vertical strikes on a metallic plate that serves as a coupler between an active input source …