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Surface Waves in Geomechanics: Direct and Inverse Modelling for Soils and Rocks

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  • © 2005

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Editors:
  1. Carlo G. Lai

    1. Eucentre, Pavia, Italy

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  2. Krzysztof Wilmański

    1. Weierstrass Institut-Wias, Berlin, Germany

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Part of the book series: CISM International Centre for Mechanical Sciences (CISM, volume 481)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Near-Surface Site Characterization Using Surface Waves

    • Glenn J. Rix
    Pages 1-46

  3. Surface Wave Testing for Geotechnical Characterization

    • Sebastiano Foti
    Pages 47-71

  4. Surface Waves in Dissipative Media: Forward and Inverse Modelling

    • Carlo G. Lai
    Pages 73-163

  5. Waves Propagation Modes: From Simple Systems to Layered Soils

    • Eduardo Kausel
    Pages 165-202

  6. Elastic modelling of surface waves in single and multicomponent systems

    • Krzysztof Wilmański
    Pages 203-276

  7. Modelling of surface waves in poroelastic saturated materials by means of a two component continuum

    • Bettina Albers
    Pages 277-323

  8. Theory of Nonlinear Surface Waves and Solitons

    • Gérard A. Maugin
    Pages 325-371

  9. Experimental Soil Behaviour: its Testing by Waves and Engineering Applications

    • Renato Lancellotta
    Pages 373-385
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Theories of surface waves develop since the end of XIX century and many fundamental problems like existence, phase and group velocities, attenuation (quality factor), mode conversion, etc. have been, in part successfully, solved within the framework of such simple models as ideal fluids^ or linear elasticity. However, a sufficiently complete presentation of this subject, particularly for solids, is still missing in the literature. The sole exception is the book of I. A. Viktorov^ which contains an extensive discussion of fundamental properties of surface waves in homogeneous and stratified linear elastic solids with particular emphasis on contributions of Russian scientists. Unfortunately, the book has never been translated to English and its Russian version is also hardly available. Practical applications of surface waves develop intensively since a much shorter period of time than theories even though the motivation of discoverers of surface waves such as Lord Rayleigh stems from their appearance in geophysics and seismology. Nowadays the growing interest in practical applications of surface waves stem from the following two main factors: surface waves are ideal for developing relatively cheap and convenient methods of nondestructive testing of various systems spanning from nanomaterials (e.g.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Eucentre, Pavia, Italy

    Carlo G. Lai

  • Weierstrass Institut-Wias, Berlin, Germany

    Krzysztof Wilmański

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