Global Inversion of Surface Wave Dispersion Curves Based on Improved Weighted Average Velocity Method
Publication: Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering
Volume 139, Issue 12
Abstract
In this paper, a global inversion algorithm for surface wave dispersion curve is proposed. An improved weighted average velocity (Wave) method is used as the forward model and generalized reduced gradient (GRG) method is used for minimization of misfit function. The development of the proposed algorithm is detailed. The proposed inversion algorithm is then used to invert synthetic Rayleigh wave dispersion curves of known one-dimensional (1D) soil profiles and results show that the initial soil profile population size of 10,000 is sufficient to obtain the global minimum solution. Finally, field Rayleigh wave dispersion curves are inverted to show that the 1D shear wave velocity () profiles from the proposed inversion algorithm agree well with independently measured data.
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Acknowledgments
This research was supported by grant PTRC-CEE/DSTA/2010.01 administered by the Protective Technology Research Centre, Nanyang Technological University.
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Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering
Volume 139 • Issue 12 • December 2013
Pages: 2156 - 2169
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Received: Aug 3, 2012
Accepted: Apr 5, 2013
Published online: Apr 8, 2013
Published in print: Dec 1, 2013
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