Hossein Rahnema - Assistant professor, Civil and Environmental. Eng. Dept., Shiraz University of Technology
Mehdi Hashemi Jokar - PhD. Candidate, Civil and Environmental. Eng. Dept., Shiraz University of Technology
Claudio Strobbia - PhD, Chief Research Scientist and Founder at realtimeseismic, France

Application of the surface wave method, as a nondestructive method to determine the underground characteristics are recently increased for Geophysical and Geotechnical Engineering purposes. In this paper, for a three-layer soil located on half space, the experimental dispersion curve was compared by one, determined from numerical modeling with ABAQUS software via finite element method. The results show a close relationship in wide range of frequency between experimental dispersion curves which were obtained by experimental and numerical modeling data.

surface waves, experimental and theoretical dispersion curves, numerical modeling, ABAQUS