Deborah Sicilia

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: The main scope of the InterPACIFIC (Intercomparison of methods for site parameter and velocity profile characterization) project is to assess the reliability of in-hole and surface-wave methods, used for estimating shear wave velocity as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: The InterPACIFIC project as discussed by the authors assessed the reliability, resolution, and variability of geophysical methods in estimating the shear-wave velocity profile for seismic ground response analyses for three different subsoil conditions.

TL;DR: In this paper, the epistemic uncertainties related only to wave propagation modeling using different nonlinear constitutive models are shown to increase with the strain level and to reach values around 0.2 (log(10) scale) for a peak ground acceleration of 5''m/s^2 at the base of the soil column, which may be reduced by almost 50% when the various constitutive model used the same shear strength and damping implementation.

TL;DR: In this article, the main results of the validation phase of the PRENOLIN project are presented, with the first phase verifying the numerical solution of these codes on idealized soil profiles using simple signals and real seismic records.