Surface Waves in Geomechanics Direct And Inverse Modelling for Soils And Rocks

The subject of this book is forward and inverse modelling of surface waves. Although the emphasis is placed in Rayleigh wave propagation in geomaterials, the theory is developed for rather general constitutive models spanning from one-component linear elasticity and viscoelasticity to multi-component systems and nonlinear continua. An attempt is made to achieve a good balance between the formal development of the theory and its practical implementation, always highlighting the similarities of the approaches in different fields of application of surface waves. Experimental techniques for geotechnical site characterization using surface waves are presented in details. A chapter is devoted to computational methods for generalized surface and interface waves. A part of the book concerns with the propagation of surface waves in poroelastic saturated materials and to theoretical foundations of nonlinear surface waves. The approach to the subject is new in the scientific literature. Several results are published for the first time. Attached to the book is a CD containing freeware software for surface wave analysis.Lai, Carlo G. is the author of 'Surface Waves in Geomechanics Direct And Inverse Modelling for Soils And Rocks', published 2005 under ISBN 9783211277409 and ISBN 3211277404.