On the frequencies of inhomogeneous soil strata: Dobry's paradox

This brief article elaborates on some clearly unlikely predictions made some four decades ago by R. Dobry within the context of his doctoral dissertation, which concerns the resonant frequencies of soil strata whose stiffness starts at zero at ground level and then increases continuously as some pow...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kausel, Eduardo A.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Elsevier 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/101655