Surface Wave Methods for Near-Surface Site Characterization

"Surface wave methods analysis the dispersive nature of surface wave propagation in heterogeneous media to measure shear wave velocity or material damping ratio profiles, and enable earthquake site response to be assessed. This is the only comprehensive reference that provides a unified treatment of surface wave propagation, signal processing, inverse theory and the testing protocols that form the basis of modern surface wave methods. The use of these tests has increased dramatically since the 1980s, butthey are too often performed and interpreted in a variety of ways that are confusing. This book answers the pressing need for a guide to the basic principles as well as outlining a set of reliable, dependable and accepted practices. It is written for geotechnical engineers, engineering seismologists and geophysicists as well as academics in these fields"--

Sebastiano Foti is an assistant professor at Politecnico di Torino, Italy.

Carlo G. Lai is Head of the Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Seismology Section at the European Centre for Training and Research in Earthquake Engineering (EUCENTRE) in Pavia, Italy.

Glenn J. Rix is a Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, USA.

Claudio Strobbia is Senior Research Geophysicist in the WesternGeco-Schlumberger Cairo Technology Center, in Cairo, Egypt.