ABSTRACT
The purpose o f this paper is to look at the technical data and documentation on Sonic Integrity Tests (SIT) and the major breakthroughs that have taken place over the last twenty years since the First Conference in Stockholm, Sweden, by the initia tive o f a few pioneers in Stress-Wave Theory and it Applications to Foundations Piles in 1980. Since then, the number o f participants as well as the vol ume and content o f papers submitted to each Con ference, even from the so-called “peripheral” coun tries has been on the increase.
