TY - JOUR A1 - Auersch, Lutz A1 - Said, Samir T1 - Attenuation of ground vibrations due to different technical sources T2 - Earthquake engineering and engineering vibration N2 - The attenuation of technically induced surface waves is studied theoretically and experimentally. In this paper, nineteen measurements of ground vibrations induced by eight different technical sources including road and rail traffic, vibratory and impulsive construction work or pile driving, explosions, hammer impulses and mass drops are described, and it is shown that the technically induced ground vibrations exhibit a power-law attenuation ν ~ r -q where the exponents q are in the range of 0.5 to 2.0 and depend on the source types. Comparisons performed demonstrate that the measured exponents are considerably higher than theoretically expected. Some potential effects on ground vibration attenuation are theoretically analyzed. The most important effect is due to the material or scattering damping. Each frequency component is attenuated exponentially as exp(-kr), but for a broad-band excitation, the sum of the exponential laws also yields a power law but with a high exponent. Additional effects are discussed, for example the dispersion of the Rayleigh wave due to soil layering, which yields an additional exponent of 0.5 in cases of impulsive loading. PB - Science Press CY - Beijing, China KW - Wave attenuation KW - Environmental vibrations KW - Field tests KW - Material damping KW - Scattering damping KW - Rayleigh wave PY - 2010 UR - https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-bam/frontdoor/index/index/docId/22124 AN - OPUS4-22124 SN - 1671-3664 VL - 9 IS - 3 SP - 337 EP - 344 AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany