Surface waves in geomechanics : direct and inverse modelling for soils and rocks /

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Imprint:Wien : Springer, 2005.
Description:1 online resource (385 pages) : illustrations.
Language:English
Series:Courses and lectures ; number 481
Courses and lectures ; number 481.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9900299
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Other authors / contributors:Lai, Carlo G.
WilmanĖski, Krzysztof.
ISBN:9783211380659 (electronic bk.)
3211380655 (electronic bk.)
9783211277409
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Includes bibliographical references.
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Summary:The subject of this book is forward and inverse modelling of surface waves. Although the emphasis is placed in Rayleigh wave propagation in geomaterials, the theory is developed for rather general constitutive models spanning from one-component linear elasticity and viscoelasticity to multi-component systems and nonlinear continua. An attempt is made to achieve a good balance between the formal development of the theory and its practical implementation, always highlighting the similarities of the approaches in different fields of application of surface waves. Experimental techniques for geotechnical site characterization using surface waves are presented in details. A chapter is devoted to computational methods for generalized surface and interface waves. A part of the book concerns with the propagation of surface waves in poroelastic saturated materials and to theoretical foundations of nonlinear surface waves. The approach to the subject is new in the scientific literature. Several results are published for the first time.
Other form:Print version: Surface waves in geomechanics 3211277404
Standard no.:10.1007/3-211-38065-5