Journal
SOIL DYNAMICS AND EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING
Volume 22, Issue 3, Pages 181-190Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/S0267-7261(02)00008-8
Keywords
shear-wave velocity; surface wave; borehole measurements; near-surface materials
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Recent field tests illustrate the accuracy and consistency of calculating near-surface shear (S)-wave velocities using multichannel analysis of surface waves (MASW). S-wave velocity profiles (S-wave velocity vs. depth) derived from MASW compared favorably to direct borehole measurements at sites in Kansas, British Columbia, and Wyoming. Effects of changing the total number of recording channels, sampling interval, source offset, and receiver spacing on the inverted S-wave velocity were studied at a test site in Lawrence, Kansas. On the average, the difference between MASW calculated V-s and borehole measured V-s in eight wells along the Fraser River in Vancouver, Canada was less than 15%. One of the eight wells was a blind test well with the calculated overall difference between MASW and borehole measurements less than 9%. No systematic differences were observed in derived V-s values from any of the eight test sites. Surface wave analysis performed on surface data from Wyoming provided S-wave velocities in near-surface materials. Velocity profiles from MASW were confirmed by measurements based on suspension log analysis. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
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