Workshop on Application of Geophysical Techniques to Site and Material Characterization

本次讲习班的目的是评价土木工程应用中使用的地球物理技术的现状，并确定需要进一步发展的领域。地球物理方法为测量土壤和其他土木工程材料的力学特性提供了一种理论上合理的方法。这些方法的一个吸引人的特点是它们是非破坏性的，而且通常是非侵入性的。在过去的十年里，地球物理方法有了一些重要的发展。由于计算机的能力和可用性的提高，许多最近的发展成为可能。三个重点领域是：(1)现有的波在近地表土壤和其他工程材料中传播的解析和数值方法；(2)地球物理方法在土木工程中的新应用；(3)总结软件的可用性、分布和文档，以便工程师可以从最近的软件开发中受益。

The objective of this workshop is to evaluate the state of the art of geophysical techniques for use in civil engineering applications, and to identify areas that need additional development. Geophysical methods provide a theoretically sound means of measuring the mechanical properties of soil and other civil engineering materials. An attractive feature of these methods is that they are nondestructive, and often non invasive. There have been several important developments in geophysical methods in the past decade. Many recent developments have been made possible by the increased power and availability of computers. Three areas of focus are: (1) Existing analytical and numerical methods for wave propagation in near-surface soils and other engineering materials; (2) new applications of geophysical methods in civil engineering; and (3) to summarize the availability, distribution and documentation of software, so that engineers can benefit from recent software developments.