Surface Waves in Geomechanics: Direct and Inverse Modelling for Soils and Rocks formatIsbn:Softcover 9783211277409 A Constructive Approach 9783110089400 A Constructive Approach which has been running during the last three years with the support ofthe Nordic Council for Advanced Studies (NorFA) Practical applications of surface waves develop intensively since a much shorter period of time than theories even though the motivation of discoverers of surface waves such as Lord Rayleigh stems from their appearance in geophysics and seismology Viktorov^ which contains an extensive discussion of fundamental properties of surface waves in homogeneous and stratified linear elastic solids with particular emphasis on contributions of Russian scientists