Preface;

Acknowledgements

Section 1, Introduction: Setting the standard for geophysical surveys in site investigation; Section 2, Standards and Practice: Electrical imaging and its application in engineering investigations;

Novel regularized inversion of VLF(R) data and coincident radar sections over a probable fault affecting Carboniferous sedimentary rocks in the Saar region, Germany;

Geotechnical applications of the spectral analysis of surface waves; Imaging groundwater ‘steps’ in push moraines by georadar;

Some improvements in the processing of borehole acoustic signals for the characterization of geological structures;

Resistivity (-method) method for environmental monitoring: a new approach; The use of Rayleigh waves to detect the depth of shallow landfill;

The application of electromagnetic techniques to environmental geophysical surveys; The geotechnical value of ground stiffness determined using seismic methods; Multicomponent geophysical surveys over completed landfill sites;

Section 3, Site investigation: An example of the use of crosshole tomography in dam well foundation studies;

The detection of cavities using the microgravity technique: case histories from mining and karstic environments;

Radar tomography applied to foundation design in a karstic environment; Seismic tomography survey under the La Gileppe Dam;

Application of the micro-gravity technique to cavity location in investigations for major civil engineering works;

Contribution of electrical and acoustic methods in the evaluation of the condition of accessible underground pipework and its environment;

Resistivity sounding: two case studies from the Creatceous Chalk at Boxgrove, West Sussex and Barnham, Suffolk, UK;

The potential of on-shore high-resolution shallow seismic techniques when applied to coastal site investigation;

The use of geophysics in the design and construction of the new airport at Chek Lap Kok, Hong Kong; Electrical resistivity imaging systems for ground investigations, with particular reference to dissolution features in Chalk areas;

Cross-hole seismic tomography for engineering site investigation;

Section 4, Rock mass assessment:  Hydraulic tomography in fractured bedrock aquifers using high-resolution borehole flowmeter measurements;

Azimuthal resistivity and seismic measurements for the determination of fracture orientations;

Downhole geophysical investigations for a proposed deep highway cutting adjacent to a rail tunnel at Murrurundi, NSW, Australia; Shallow over-water seismic reflection surveys for determining inland waterways sediment distribution in the Netherlands;

The acquisition of geophysical wireline logging data as part of the UK Nirex Ltd investigations of a potential radioactive waste repository at Sellafield, Cumbria;

Integrated study of fracture systems in Southern Zimbabwe; Surface and borehole microseismic monitoring of mining-induced seismicity;

High-definition seismic for Channel Tunnel marine route; Geophysical survey planning for the Dounreay and Sellafield geological investigations;

Section 5, Laboratory studies: The use of shear wave transmission as a non-destructive tool to assess the soft soil stiffness in dredging applications; Thermal conductivities of agrillaceous sediments; Measurement of stiffness of soils using small strain triaxial testing and bender elements; The use of ultrasonics to monitor long-term creep tests of salt rock samples;

Section 6, Advances in the seismic refraction method: Seismic refraction in relation to geotechnical information for (road) construction contracts; A new standard in the practice of engineering seismic refraction; A flexible algorithm for seismic refraction interpretation using program REFRACT;

Seismic reflection survey in Bernburg, Germany: an application of the generalized reciprocal and phantoming methods; Evaluation of seismic refraction interpretation using first arrival raytracing;

Section 7, Summary and Conclusions: Engineering and environmental geophysics: the future; Modern geophysics in engineering geology: an overview;

Index