Publication Date:
2017-04-04
Description:
The local soil structure (i.e. shear and pressure wave velocities) can be obtained
by inversion of dispersion curves ranging over a sufficiently large frequency band.
However, measurements of such dispersion curves using ambient seismic vibrations
require a large number of seismometers and a long measuring time.
As a simple alternative, we propose to invert Rayleigh wave ellipticity
obtained by ambient seismic noise measurements at a single site using a method
based on the random decrement technique (Hobiger et al., 2009). Indeed, the freSeismological
Research Letters Volume 81, Number 2 March/April 2010 305
quency-dependency of Rayleigh wave ellipticity is tightly related to the shear wave
profile of the soil.
However, as different soil structures can result in the same ellipticity curve
(e.g. homothetic structures in velocity and thickness), the inversion of ellipticity
curves alone is ambiguous. Therefore, additional measurements fixing the shearwave
velocity in the superficial layers have to be included into the inversion process.
We suggest using a small number of seismic stations to measure spatial autocorrelation
curves. In this way, three seismic sensors and one hour of measurements can be
sufficient to invert the local soil structure.
We will present the method to extract the Rayleigh wave ellipticity curve,
show which parts of the ellipticity curve have to be included in the inversion process
and demonstrate the benefit of the additional spatial autocorrelation curve
measurements. Then, we will present an example application to real noise data
collected within the framework of the European NERIES project at well-known
European accelerometric sites and the results will be compared to th
Description:
Published
Description:
Montpellier, France
Description:
4.1. Metodologie sismologiche per l'ingegneria sismica
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restricted
Keywords:
ellipticity, spac
Repository Name:
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV)
Type:
Poster session
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