Monitoring frictional strength with acoustic wave transmission

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Nagata, Kohei ^a   Nakatani, Masao ^a   Yoshida, Shingo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; ACOUSTIC WAVE TRANSMISSION; REMOTE CONTROL; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); STRENGTH OF MATERIALS;

CONTACT STATE; FRICTIONAL INTERFACES; FRICTIONAL STRENGTH;

INTERFACES (MATERIALS);

ACOUSTIC METHOD; ACOUSTIC WAVE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FRICTION; INTERFACE; LABORATORY METHOD; MEASUREMENT METHOD; SLIP; TRANSMISSIVITY;

EID: 44349106437     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL033146     Document Type: Article

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