Table of Contents

The Use of Ambient Noise for Building and Soil Characterisation.- The Need for Standardized Approach for Estimating the Local Site Effects Based on Ambient Noise Recordings.- Are Transients Carrying Useful Information for Estimating H/V Spectral Ratios?.- Basic Structure of QTS (HVSR) and Examples of Applications.- Ambient Noise and Site Response: From Estimation of Site Effects to Determination of the Subsoil Structure.- In-Situ Estimates of Material Damping from Environmental Noise Measurements.- Estimates of Vs30 Based on Constrained H/V Ratio Measurements Alone.- Comparison of Recorded Dynamic Characteristics of Structures and Ground During Strong and Weak Shaking.- HVSR Technique Improvement Using Redundant Wavelet Transform.- Effect of Buildings on Free-Field Ground Motion.- Effect of Building-Building Interaction on “Free-Field” Ground Motion.- Role of Dynamic Properties on Building Vulnerability.- How Far Ambient Noise Measurement May Help to Assess Building Vulnerability?.- Assessment of Seismic Capacity of Existing Buildings – Effects of Uncertainties.- Estimation of the Period of Vibration of Existing RC Building Types Based on Experimental Data and Numerical Results.- Retrofitting and Strengthening Evaluation from Stiffness Variations of a Damaged Building from Ambient Vibration Recordings.- State-of-the-Art – Recent Advances and Applications.- Microtremor Soil-Structure Resonance Study in the Bovec Basin (NW Slovenia) Related to 1998 and 2004 Damaging Earthquakes.- Recent Earthquake Site Response Studies in Canada.- Recent Applications of Ambient Vibration Measurements in Croatia.- Applications to World Heritage Sites.- Two Applications of the HVSR Technique to Cultural Heritage and Historical Masonry.- Overview of Seismic Hazard Studies in TunisCity.- An Empirical Geotechnical Seismic Site Response Procedure.