TY  - JOUR
A1  - Foti, Sebastiano
A1  - Hollender, Fabrice
A1  - Garofalo, Flora
A1  - Albarello, Dario
A1  - Asten, Michael
A1  - Bard, Pierre-Yves
A1  - Comina, Cesare
A1  - Cornou, Cecile
A1  - Cox, Brady
A1  - Di Giulio, Giuseppe
A1  - Forbriger, Thomas
A1  - Hayashi, Koichi
A1  - Lunedei, Enrico
A1  - Martin, Antony
A1  - Mercerat, Diego
A1  - Ohrnberger, Matthias
A1  - Poggi, Valerio
A1  - Renalier, Florence
A1  - Sicilia, Deborah
A1  - Socco, Valentina
T1  - Guidelines for the good practice of surface wave analysis
BT  - a product of the InterPACIFIC project
JF  - Bulletin of earthquake engineering : official publication of the European Association for Earthquake Engineering
N2  - Surface wave methods gained in the past decades a primary role in many seismic projects. Specifically, they are often used to retrieve a 1D shear wave velocity model or to estimate the V-s,V-30 at a site. The complexity of the interpretation process and the variety of possible approaches to surface wave analysis make it very hard to set a fixed standard to assure quality and reliability of the results. The present guidelines provide practical information on the acquisition and analysis of surface wave data by giving some basic principles and specific suggestions related to the most common situations. They are primarily targeted to non-expert users approaching surface wave testing, but can be useful to specialists in the field as a general reference. The guidelines are based on the experience gained within the InterPACIFIC project and on the expertise of the participants in acquisition and analysis of surface wave data.
KW  - Rayleigh waves
KW  - MASW
KW  - Ambient vibration analysis
KW  - Site characterization
KW  - Shear wave velocity
KW  - V-S,V-30
Y1  - 2017
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10518-017-0206-7
SN  - 1570-761X
SN  - 1573-1456
VL  - 16
IS  - 6
SP  - 2367
EP  - 2420
PB  - Springer
CY  - Dordrecht
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Garofalo, F.
A1  - Foti, S.
A1  - Hollender, F.
A1  - Bard, Pierre-Yves
A1  - Cornou, C.
A1  - Cox, B. R.
A1  - Ohrnberger, Matthias
A1  - Sicilia, D.
A1  - Asten, M.
A1  - Di Giulio, G.
A1  - Forbriger, T.
A1  - Guillier, B.
A1  - Hayashi, K.
A1  - Martin, A.
A1  - Matsushima, Satoru
A1  - Mercerat, D.
A1  - Poggi, V.
A1  - Yamanaka, H.
T1  - InterPACIFIC project: Comparison of invasive and non-invasive methods for seismic site characterization. Part I: Intra-comparison of surface wave methods
JF  - Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering
N2  - The main scope of the InterPACIFIC (Intercomparison of methods for site parameter and velocity profile characterization) project is to assess the reliability of in-hole and surface-wave methods, used for estimating shear wave velocity. Three test-sites with different subsurface conditions were chosen: a soft soil, a stiff soil and a rock outcrop. This paper reports the surface-wave methods results. Specifically 14 teams of expert users analysed the same experimental surface-wave datasets, consisting of both passive and active data. Each team adopted their own strategy to retrieve the dispersion curve and the shear-wave velocity profile at each site. Despite different approaches, the dispersion curves are quite in agreement with each other. Conversely, the shear-wave velocity profiles show a certain variability that increases in correspondence of major stratigraphic interfaces. This larger variability is mainly due to non-uniqueness of the solution and lateral variability. As expected, the observed variability in V-s,V-30 estimatesis small, as solution non-uniqueness plays a limited role. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
KW  - Surface-wave methods
KW  - Dispersion curve
KW  - Inversion
KW  - V-s,V-30
KW  - Site characterization
KW  - MASW
KW  - Microtremors
KW  - Rayleigh waves
KW  - Geophysical methods
Y1  - 2016
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soildyn.2015.12.010
SN  - 0267-7261
SN  - 1879-341X
VL  - 82
SP  - 222
EP  - 240
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Oxford
ER  -