This paper deals with in situ characterization of the small-strain shear-wave velocity VS and damping ratio DS from an advanced interpretation of Multi-channel Analysis of Surface Waves (MASW) surveys. A new approach based on extracting Rayleigh wave data using the CFDBFa method has been discussed in the companion paper. This paper focuses on mapping the experimental Rayleigh wave phase velocity and attenuation into profiles of VS and DS versus depth, which is achieved through a joint inversion procedure. The joint inversion of phase velocity and attenuation data utilizes a newly developed Monte Carlo global search algorithm, which implements a smart sampling procedure. This scheme exploits the scaling properties of the solution of the Rayleigh eigenvalue problem to modify the trial earth models and improve the matching with the experimental data. Thus, a reliable result can be achieved with a limited number of trial ground models. The proposed algorithm is applied to the inversion of synthetic data and of experimental data collected at the Garner Valley Downhole Array site, as described in the companion paper. In general, inverted soil models exhibit well-defined VS profiles, whereas DS profiles are affected by larger uncertainties. Greater uncertainty in the inverted DS profiles is a direct result of higher variability in the experimental attenuation data, the limited wavelength range at which reliable values of attenuation parameters can be retrieved, and the sensitivity of attenuation data to both DS and VS. Nonetheless, the resulting inverted earth models agree well with alternative in situ estimates and geological data. The results stress the feasibility of retrieving both stiffness and attenuation parameters from active-source MASW testing and the effectiveness of extracting in situ damping ratio estimates from surface wave data.
- Award ID(s):
- 2120155
- NSF-PAR ID:
- 10378913
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- Journal of Seismology
- Volume:
- 26
- Issue:
- 4
- ISSN:
- 1383-4649
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- 731 to 756
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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