By Paola Monaco, Gianfranco Totani (auth.), Mohamed A. Sakr, Atilla Ansal (eds.)
Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics, in addition to their interface with Engineering Seismology, Geophysics and Seismology, have all made notable growth during the last 15 years, in most cases as a result of the improvement of instrumented huge scale experimental amenities, to the rise within the volume and caliber of recorded earthquake info, to the varied well-documented case reports from contemporary powerful earthquakes in addition to more advantageous laptop services. one of many significant elements contributing to the aforementioned growth is the expanding social want for a secure city setting, huge infrastructures and crucial amenities. the most scope of our booklet is to supply the geotechnical engineers, geologists and seismologists, with the latest advances and advancements within the sector of earthquake geotechnical engineering, seismology and soil dynamics.
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29 Map with the location of the five sites investigated by SDMT terms of VS profile only (no DMT parameters) for two sites (L’Aquila and Pettino) where most of the subsoil was non-penetrable and the borehole backfilling procedure was followed. As a matter of fact, the measured VS results mostly higher than 400 m/s, reaching sometimes values as high as 2,000 m/s. The results in Fig. E. project (Cese di Preturo, Pianola, Roio Piano) where the bedrock was expected to be deep; the measured VS values seldom trespass 400 m/s, even at the highest depths investigated.
The data records have been analyzed in the f-k domain using a frequency beam-former approach (Zywicki 1999). The integration of active and passive data allowed to retrieve a dispersion curve with a broad frequency range, and consequently, to increase the penetration depth without losing resolution in shallow layers. The Roio Piano site is characterized by colluvial deposits and debris covers overlying sandy and silty layers; these latter lie on a stiff calcareous bedrock with variable depth (Tallini et al.
39 San Giacomo site: (a) best-fitting profile from Monte Carlo inversion, (b) comparison of the Haskell-Thomson matrix determinant with the experimental data upper looser soils resulted comparable (about 300 m/s), from both MASW and DH tests it was not clear whether the coarse-grained megabreccia can be assumed as stiff bedrock. E. project. A network of soil dynamics laboratories was involved: ISMGEO (Bergamo), Politecnico di Torino, Universities of Catania, Florence, Naples and Rome ‘La Sapienza’.