Estimation of stress-dependent anisotropy from P-wave measurements on a spherical sample

Geophysics

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Nadri, Dariush ^a   Bóna, Andrej ^b   Brajanovski, Miroslav ^b   Lokajíček, Tomáš ^c  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; MICROCRACKS; OIL FIELDS; ROAD CONSTRUCTION; ROCK PRESSURE; SEISMIC WAVES; SHALE; VELOCITY; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ANISOTROPY PARAMETERS; CONFINING PRESSURES; DIFFERENT CONFINING PRESSURES; ESTIMATION OF STRESS; EXPONENTIAL DEPENDENCE; TRANSVERSELY ISOTROPIC; ULTRASONIC P-WAVE VELOCITY; VERY FAST SIMULATED RE-ANNEALING ALGORITHMS;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

ALGORITHM; CONFINING PRESSURE; MICROCRACK; OIL FIELD; P-WAVE; PARAMETERIZATION; PHASE VELOCITY; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SHALE; SIMULATED ANNEALING; STRESS FIELD; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

AUSTRALIA; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84857241935     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.3552703     Document Type: Article

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