Incipient interface waves used to monitor rock failure

2nd North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, NARM 1996

Volumn , Issue , 1996, Pages 1169-1175

  Pyrak Nolte, Laura J ^a   Roy, Sanjit ^a   Neumann, Christopher ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE TRANSMISSION; CRACKS; FRACTURE; ROCK MECHANICS; SHEAR WAVES;

CATASTROPHIC FAILURES; FRACTURE PLANE; FREQUENCY SHIFT; INTERFACE WAVES; MACROSCOPIC FRACTURES; ROCK FAILURES; WAVE PARTICLES; WAVE SIGNAL;

SHEAR FLOW;

EID: 85054909548     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (16)

1. Combes, J. M., A. Grossman and Ph. Tchamitchian, eds, 1989, Wavelets: Time-Frequency Methods and Phase Space. Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
2. Crampin, S. R. 1981. A review of wave motion in anisotropic and cracked elastic media. Wave Motion. 3:343-391. Ekern A., Suarez-Rivera R., and A. Hansen. 1995.
3. Ekern A., Suarez-Rivera R., and A. Hansen 1995 Investigation of interface wave propagation along planar fractures in sedimentary rocks. Proceedings of the 35th US Symposium on Rock Mechanics. Rotterdam: Balkema.
4. Gu, B. 1994. Interface Waves on a Fracture, Ph.D. Thesis. University of California, Berkeley.
5. Hudson, J. A. 1991. Crack distributions which account for a given seismic anisotropy. Geophysical Journal International. 104:517-521
6. Jaeger, J. C., N. G. W. Cook. 1979. Fundamentals of Rock Mechanics. 3rd Edition. London: Chapman and Hall
7. Nagy, P. B. 1991. Ultrasonic detection of kissing bonds at adhesive interfaces. Journal of Adhesion Science and Technology. 5:619-630.
8. Nihei, K. T. 1992. Micromechanics of Seismic Wave Propagation in Granular Rocks. Ph.D. Thesis. University of California, Berkeley.
9. O'Connell, R. J., B. Budianski. 1974. Seismic velocities in dry and saturated cracked solids. Journal of Geophysical Research. 79:5412.
10. Pyrak-Nolte, L.J., N.G.W. Cook. 1987. Elastic Interface Waves along a Fracture. Geophysical Research Letters. 14:1107-1110.
11. Pyrak-Nolte, L. J., Myer, L.R., N.G.W. Cook. 1990. Transmission of seismic waves across single natural fractures. Journal Geophysical Research. 95:8617-8638.
12. Pyrak-Nolte, L. J., D. D. Nolte. 1995. Wavelet analysis of velocity dispersion of interface waves along fractures, Geophysical Research Letters. 22:1329-1332.
13. Rothman, R. L. 1975. Crack Distributions under Uniaxial Load and Associated Changes in Seismic Velocities Prior to Failure. Ph.D. Thesis. The Pennsylvania State University. 13 lp.
14. Roy, S., L. J. Pyrak-Nolte. 1995. Interface waves along tensile fractures in dolomite, Geophysical Research Letters. 22:2773-2776.
15. Sayers, C. M. 1990. Inversion of ultrasonic wave velocity measurements to obtain the microcrack orientation distribution function in rocks. Engineering Fracture Mechanics. 35:743-749.
16. Zheng, Z. 1989. Compressive Stess-Induced Microcracks in Rocks and Applications to Seismic Anisotropy. Ph.D. Thesis. Univeristy of California, Berkeley.