Roger. D Borcherdt

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Viscoelastic Waves in Layered Media

Beschreibung

Presents innovative mathematical theory and corresponding numerical results for wave propagation in layered media with arbitrary amounts of intrinsic absorption.

Autor

Roger D. Borcherdt is a research scientist at the United States Geological Survey and consulting professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University, California, where he also served as visiting Shimizu Professor. He holds B.A. and M.A. degrees in theoretical mathematics from the Universities of Colorado and Wisconsin and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Engineering Geoscience with minors in Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Statistics from the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of more than 150 scientific publications including several on the theoretical and empirical aspects of seismic wave propagation pertaining to problems in seismology, geophysics, and earthquake engineering. He is an honorary member of the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, past editor of Earthquake Spectra and a member of the American Geophysical Union, the Seismological Society of America, the American Society of Civil Engineering, and the Structural Engineering Association of Northern California. He is the recipient of the US Department of Interior Meritorious Service award for scientific leadership in engineering seismology and the 1994 and 2002 Outstanding Paper Awards of Earthquake Spectra. He is a member of several advisory committees, a registered Geophysicist in the State of California (GP 163), and co-inventor of the General Earthquake Observation System (GEOS), patent number 4,603,486.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 322
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 558g
• ISBN-13: 9781108462112
• ISBN-10: 1108462111
• Artikelnr.: 51385955