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Record W4413849117 · doi:10.1016/j.geogeo.2025.100453

A review on the application of geophysical methods in civil engineering studies

2025· article· en· W4413849117 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueGeosystems and Geoenvironment · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEarth and Planetary Sciences
TopicSeismic Waves and Analysis
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Calgary
FundersUniversidade de São Paulo
KeywordsGeophysicsEngineering ethicsEngineeringGeology

Abstract

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This paper reviewed the application of geophysical methods in civil engineering projects by way of subsurface characterization by examining more than 75 publications in peer–reviewed journals. The paper highlighted various geological conditions considered in engineering site characterization and the appropriate geophysical methods such as electrical resistivity tomography, seismic refraction tomography, self-potential, induced polarization, electromagnetic, multichannel analysis of surface waves and magnetic methods used in subsurface characterization. Case studies drawn from 26 publications were presented to show the successful application of geophysical methods in subsurface characterization in relation to civil engineering projects. The paper also highlighted the challenges of geophysical data in civil engineering projects involving ambiguities in data interpretation, complexity in data processing and high noise to signal ratio in culturally noisy environments. Resolutions in the limitations and challenges of geophysical methods in civil engineering characterization were also offered in the paper, chief among them is integrated use of geophysical methods which has gained traction in recent years. Further solutions are incorporating appropriate band pass filters in the design of geophysical equipment’s to enhance signal to noise ratio in culturally noisy environments. Future researches in the use of geophysical methods in subsurface characterization in relation to civil engineering projects should involve joint inversion and modelling of integrated geophysical methods to achieve optimum results for subsurface imaging. Future researches should also incorporate the integration of machine learning and deep learning techniques, which enhance automated interpretation, facilitate anomaly detection, and enable real-time geophysical monitoring in civil infrastructure applications.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.748
Threshold uncertainty score0.156

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

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Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.014
GPT teacher head0.265
Teacher spread0.251 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it