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	ABBISS, C.P. (1983) Calculation of elasticities and settlements for long periods of time and high strains from seismic measurements" Géotechnique, vol.33, no.4, pp.397-405.
	ABBISS, C.P. (1981) "Shear wave measurements of the elasticity of the ground" Géotechnique, vol.31, no.1, pp.91-109.
	ADDO, K.O., Robertson, P.K. (1992) "Shear-wave velocity measurement of soils using Rayleigh waves" Canadian Geotechnical Journal, vol.29, pp.558-568.
	ALONSO, M., Finn, E.J. (1967) "Fundamental University Physics" Volume 2 - Fields and Waves, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company.
	ANDERSON, D.G., Stokoe, K.H., II. (1978) "Shear modulus: a time dependent soil property" Dynamic Geotechnical Testing, A.S.T.M. S.T.P. 654, Philadelphia, pp.66-90.
	ANDERSON, D.G., Woods, R.D. (1975) "Comparison of field and laboratory shear moduli" Proceedings, Conference on In situ Measurement of Soil Properties. Speciality Conference of the Geotechnical Engineering Division A.S.C.E., Raleigh, North Carolina, vol.1, pp.69-92.
	BALLARD, R.F., Jr. (1964) "Determination of soil shear moduli at depth by in-situ vibratory techniques" U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station, Corps of Engineers, Miscellaneous Paper no. 4-691, Vicksburg, Mississippi.
	BALLARD, R.F., Jr.,McLean, F.G. (1975) "Seismic field methods for in-situ moduli" Proceedings, Conference on In situ Measurement of Soil Properties. Speciality Conference of the Geotechnical Engineering Division A.S.C.E., Raleigh, North Carolina, vol.1, pp.121-150.
	BERGSTRÖM, S.G., Linderholm, S. (1946) "A dynamic method for determining average elastic properties of surface soil layers" Handlingar Svenska Forskningsinstitutet för Cement och Betong vid Kungl., Stockholm, N:R7.
	BONNET, G., Boutin, C., Schmitt, D.P. (1988) "Propagation des ondes mécaniques dans les milieux poreux satures" Bulletin de Liason des Laboratoires des Ponts et Chausées, Journées de Physiques, vol.15, pp.129-136.
	BUTCHER, A.P., Tam, W.S.A. (In press) "An example of the use of Rayleigh waves to detect the depth of a shallow landfill" Proceedings, 30th Conference of the Engineering Group of the Geological Society, Modern Geophysics in Engineering Geology, Liège.
	BUTCHER, A.P., Powell, J.J.M. (1996) "Practical considerations for field geophysical techniques used to asses ground stiffness" Proceedings, International Conference on Advances in Site Investigation Practice, London, Thomas Telford, pp.701-714.
	CLAYTON, C.R.I., Gordon, M.A., Matthews, M.C. (1995a) "Measurement of stiffness of soils and weak rocks using small strain laboratory testing and field geophysics" Proceedings, International Symposium on Pre-failure Deformation Characteristics of Geomaterials, Sapporo, Japan, vol.1, pp.229-234.
	CLAYTON, C.R.I., Matthews, M.C., Gunn, M.J., Foged, N., Gordon, M.A. (1995c) "Reinterpretation of surface wave test for the Øresund crossing" Proceedings, 11th European Conference on Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering, Copenhagen, vol.5, pp.141-147.
	CUNNY, R.W., Fry, Z.B. (1973) "Vibratory in-situ and laboratory soil moduli compared" Journal of the Soil Mechanics and Foundations Division, A.S.C.E., Vol.99, SM 12, pp.1055-1076.
	de ALBA, P., Baldwin, K., Janoo. V., Roe, G., Celikkol, B. (1984) "Elastic wave velocities and liquifaction potential" Geotechnical Testing Journal, G.T.J.O.D.J., vol.7, no.2, pp.77-87.
	DJÄRF, L. (1982) "The wave propagation method - a reliability study" International Symposium on Bearing Capacity of Roads and Airfields, Trondheim, Norway, vol.2, pp.543-548.
	DORMAN, J., Ewing, M. (1962) "Numerical inversion of seismic surface wave dispersion data and crust-mantle structure in the New York - Pennsylvania area" Journal of Geophysical Research, vol.67, pp.5227-5241.
	DUNKIN, J.W. (1965) "Computation of modal solutions in layered elastic media at high frequencies" Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, vol.55, no.2, pp.335-358.
	FRY, Z.B. (1963) "A procedure for determining elastic moduli of soils by field vibratory techniques" U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station, Corps of Engineers, Miscellaneous Paper no. 4-577, Vicksburg, Mississippi.
	GAZETAS, G. (1982) "Vibrational characteristics of soil deposits with variable wave velocity" International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics, vol.6, pp.1-20.
	GUCUNSKI, N., Woods, R.D. (1992) "Numerical simulation of the S.A.S.W. test" Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering,vol.11, no.4, pp.213-227.
	GUCUNSKI, N., Woods, R.D. (1991a) "Instrumentation for S.A.S.W. testing" Proceedings of A.S.C.E. National Convention, "Recent advances in instrumentation, data acquisition and testing in soil dynamics", Florida. Ed. S.K. Bhatia, G.W. Blaney. Geotechnical Special Publication no.29, pp.1-16.
	GUCUNSKI, N., Woods, R.D. (1991b) "Inversion of Rayleigh wave dispersion curve for S.A.S.W. test" Proceedings, 5th International Conference on Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, Karlsruhe, Germany, pp.127-138.
	GUILLARD, Y., Hyvernaud, O., Caprioli, P. (1987) "Une méthode de reconnaissance du sol par l'étude de la propagation des ondes de Rayleigh" Journées Physique. Les méthodes d'auscultation et d'imagerie, ed. R. Lagabrielle, V. Zouboff, pp.115-120.
	HASKELL, N.A. (1953) "The dispersion of surface waves on multilayered media" Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, vol.43, pp.17-34.
	HEISEY, J.S., Stokoe, K.H., II, Meyer, A.H. (1982) "Moduli of pavement systems from spectral analysis of surface waves" Transport Research Record, no.852, Washington D.C., pp.22-31.
	HEUKELOM, W., Foster, C.R. (1962) "Dynamic testing of pavements" Transactions A.S.C.E., vol.127, part 1, pp.425-451. Discussion, pp.451-457.
	HILTUNEN, D.R., Woods, R.D. (1988) "SASW and crosshole test results compared" Proceedings, Speciality Conference of the Geotechnical Engineering Division A.S.C.E., Park City, Utah. Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics II-Recent Advances in Ground-motion Evaluation, Geotechnical Special Publication no.20, pp.279-289.
	HOAR, R.J., Stokoe, K.H., II. (1978) "Generation and measurement of shear waves in situ" Dynamic Geotechnical Testing, Proceedings, Symposium, Denver, A.S.T.M. S.T.P. 654, pp.3-29.
	HVORSLEV, M.J. (1949) "Subsurface exploration and sampling of soils for civil engineering purposes" Waterways Experiment Station, Vicksburg, Mississippi.
	JONES, R. (1963a) "Following changes in the properties of road bases and sub bases by the surface wave propagation method. Part 1" Civil Engineering and Public Works Review, pp.613,615,617, May edition.
	JONES, R. (1963b) "Following changes in the properties of road bases and sub bases by the surface wave propagation method. Part 2" Civil Engineering and Public Works Review, pp.777-780, June edition.
	JONES, R. (1962) "Surface wave technique for measuring the elastic properties and thickness of roads: theoretical development" Brit. J. Appl. Phys., vol.13, no.1, pp.21-29.
	JONES, R. (1958) "In situ measurement of the dynamic properties of soil by vibration methods" Géotechnique, vol.8, no.1, pp.1-21.
	JONES, R., Thrower, E.N., Gatfield, E.N. (1967) "Surface wave method" Proceedings, 2nd International Conference on the Structural Design of Asphalt Pavements, Ann Arbor, pp.505-519.
	JONES, R., Mayhew H.C. (1965) "Thickness and quality of cemented surfacings and bases -measuring by a non destructive surface wave method" Civil Engineering and Public Works Review, pp.523,525,527,529. April edition.
	JONGMANS, D., Demanet, D. (1993) "The importance of surface waves in vibration study and the use of Rayleigh waves for estimating the dynamic characteristics of soils" Engineering Geology, vol.34, pp.105-113.
	KNOPOFF, L. (1964) "A matrix method for elastic wave problems" Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, vol.54, no.1, pp.431-438.
	LOVE, A.E.H. (1944) "A Treatise on the Mathematical Theory of Elasticity" Dover Publications, Inc., Fourth Edition.
	MADSHUS, C., Westerdahl, H. (1990) "Surface wave measurements for construction control and maintenance planning of roads and airfields" Third International Conference on Bearing Capacity of Roads and Airfields, Trondheim, Norway, pp.233-243.
	MATTHEWS, M.C. (1993) "The mass compressibilty of fractured chalk" PhD Thesis, University of Surrey.
	MAYNE, P.W., Rix, G.J. (1993) "Gmax - qc relationships for clays" Geotechnical Testing Journal, G.T.J.O.D.J., vol.16, no.1, pp.54-60.
	MILLER, G.F., Pursey, H. (1955) "On the partition of energy between elastic waves in a semi-infinite solid" Proc. Royal Soc., Series A, vol.233, pp.55-69.
	NAZARIAN, S. (1984) "In situ determination of elastic moduli of soil deposits and pavement systems by spectral-analysis-of-surface-waves method" Ph.D. Dissertation, The University of Texas at Austin.
	NAZARIAN, S., Stokoe, K.H., II, Briggs, R.C., Rogers, R. (1988) "Determination of pavement layer thickness and moduli by SASW method" Transportation Research Record 1196, pp.133-150.
	NAZARIAN, S., Stokoe, K.H., II. (1984) "In-situ shear wave velocities from spectral analysis of surface waves" Proceedings, 8th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, San Francisco, U.S.A. Vol.3, Soil stability, soil structure interaction and foundations, pp.31-38.
	OCHI, K., Tsubouchi, T., Tatsuoka, F. (1993) "Stiffness of sedimentary soft rock from in-situ and laboratory tests" Geotechnical Engineering of Hard Soils - Soft Rocks, ed. Anagnostopoulos, A., Schlosser, F., Kalteziotis, N., Frank, R., Balkema, Rotterdam, vol.1, pp.707-714.
	RAYLEIGH, Lord. (1885) "On waves propagated along the plane surface of an elastic solid" London Mathematical Soc. Proc., vol.17, pp.4-11.
	RICHART, F.E., Jr, Hall, J.R., Jr., Woods, R.D. (1970) "Vibrations of soils and foundations", Prentice-Hall.
	SANCHEZ-SALINERO, I., Roesset, J.M., Shao, K-Y., Stokoe, K.H., II, Rix, G.J. (1987) "Analytical evaluation of variables affecting surface wave testing of pavements" Transportation Research Record no.1136, pp.86-95.
	SCHWAB, F., Knopoff, L. (1970) "Surface wave dispersion computations" Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, vol.60, no.2, pp.321-344.
	STOKOE, K.H., II, Hwang, S.K., Lee, J. N-K. (1995) "Effects of various parameters on the stiffness and damping of soils at small to medium strains" Keynote lecture, Proceedings, First International Conference on Pre-failure Deformation Characteristics of Geomaterials, Sapporo, Japan, vol.2, pp.785-816.
	STOKOE, K.H., II, Rix, G.J., Nazarian, S. (1989) "In-situ seismic testing with surface waves" Proceedings, 12th International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering, Rio de Janeiro, vol.1, pp.331-334.
	STOKOE, K.H., II, Nazarian, S. (1985) "Use of Rayleigh waves in liquifaction studies" Measurement and use of shear wave velocity for evaluating dynamic soil properties, ed. R.D. Woods, A.S.C.E., New York, pp.1-17.
	STOKOE, K.H., II, Hoar, R.J. (1978) "Field measurement of shear wave velocity by crosshole and downhole seismic methods" Proceedings, International Symposium Dynamical Methods in Soil and Rock Mechanics, Karlsruhe, 1977, Ed. G.W. Borm, vol.3, pp.115-137.
	STOKOE, K.H., II, Abdel-razzak, K.G. (1975) "Shear moduli of two compacted fills" Proceedings, Conference on In situ Measurement of Soil Properties. Speciality Conference of the Geotechnical Engineering Division A.S.C.E., Raleigh, North Carolina, vol.1, pp.422-449.
	STONELEY, R. (1954) "Rayleigh waves in a medium with two surface layers" Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Geophysics supplement 6, vol.9, pp.610-615.
	THOMSON, W.T. (1950) "Transmission of elastic waves through a stratified solid medium" Journal of Applied Physics, vol.21, pp.89-93.
	TOKIMATSU, K., Kuwayama, S., Tamura, S., Miyadera, Y. (1991) "Vs determination from steady state Rayleigh wave method" Soils and Foundations, vol.31, no.2, pp.153-163.
	TOKSÖZ, M.N., Cheng, C.H., Timur, A. (1976) "Velocities of seismic waves in porous rocks" Geophysics, vol.41, no.4, pp.621-645.
	VRETTOS, C. (1990) "In-plane vibrations of soil deposits with variable shear modulus: I. surface waves." Int. J. Numer. Anal. Methods Geomech. 14, 209-222.
	VRETTOS, C., Prange, B. (1990) "Evaluation of in-situ effective shear modulus from dispersion measurements" Journal of Geotechnical Engineering, Proc. A.S.C.E., vol.116, no.10, pp.1581-1585.
	VRETTOS, C. (1990) "Dispersive SH-surface waves in soil deposits of variable shear modulus." Soil Dyn. Earthq. Eng. 9, 255-264.
	WHITE, J.E. (1965) "Seismic waves: radiation, transmission and attenuation" McGraw- Hill.
	WOODS, R.D. (1991) "Field and laboratory determination of soil properties at low and high strains" (State of the Art Paper) Proceedings, 2nd International Conference on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics, St. Louis, Missouri, vol.2, pp.1727-1741.
	WOODS, R.D. (1978) "Measurement of dynamic soil properties" Proceedings, A.S.C.E. Geotechnical Engineering Division Speciality Conference Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics, Pasadena, vol.1, pp.91-178.