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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present guidelines for the acquisition and analysis of surface wave data by giving some basic principles and specific suggestions related to the most common situations, which are primarily targeted to non-expert users approaching surface wave testing, but can be useful to specialists in the field as a general reference.

TL;DR: In this paper, a Monte Carlo approach for the inversion problem has been used to obtain a set of equivalent shear-wave velocity models, which are then used to evaluate the seismic response with a conventional one-dimensional analysis.

TL;DR: In this paper, the reliability of surface-wave tests for the evaluation of VS,30 in seismic site characterization is assessed with respect to both uncertainty and accuracy, focusing on the implications of solution nonuniqueness in inverse problems; only the inversion uncertainty is considered within this work, omitting other possible issues such as nontrivial geological settings (e.g., lateral variations) or the influence of different processing procedures.

TL;DR: In this paper, a field scale BTES living lab was built up nearby Torino (Northern Italy) within unsaturated alluvial deposits, where approximately 9.1 GJ were transferred to the ground during the first year, raising the undisturbed temperature by 2°C.

TL;DR: In this article, the effect of high temperatures as a degrading factor of rock materials is investigated, and the increase of crack density with temperature and the consequent porosity increases were found to be the main causes of degradation of physical and mechanical properties.