The aim of the project is multifold:
a) to develop the capability for the site-specific rapid imaging
of the skeletal properties of a soil mass by coupling in-situ non-invasive
experimental and computational methods; b) to develop the computational
framework and experimental protocols that will allow near-real-time
profiling of large sites, including in-situ adjustments in field
arrays to optimize inversion procedures; c) to seek to validate
the proposed approach by profiling selected sites of the Imperial
Valley in California; and d) to migrate to the educational curriculum
the experimental and computational techniques to be developed, aiming
at the training of next-generation engineers to the state-of-the-art
in an area of grave importance to seismic hazard mitigation efforts.