Machine-translated by Google. Questions are authored in English.
Top

Discussion

Baseline correction is applied to an accelerogram in order to

  • A.remove a spurious drift before integration
  • B.increase the peak acceleration recorded
  • C.convert acceleration into intensity
  • D.filter out the surface wave arrivals

Answer: A

Correct answer: remove a spurious drift before integration

An accelerogram usually carries a small offset or slow drift from instrument and digitisation effects. Acceleration itself is barely affected, but integrating to velocity turns a constant offset into a ramp, and integrating again turns it into a parabola, so the computed displacement runs away. Baseline correction fits and removes that trend first, and without it the derived velocities and displacements are meaningless.

No comment is present. Be the first to comment.
Loading…

Post your comment

Please log in or register to post a comment.