3C laboratory ultrasound: A new method for measuring elastic anisotropy of rocks

We propose a new method for measuring velocities and polarizations of the compressional and shear waves. The method consists of measuring time dependent displacement of a particular point on the sample surface in three independent directions by a laser Doppler interferometer. The high accuracy of th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Lebedev, Maxim, Bona, Andrej, Pevzner, Roman, Gurevich, Boris
Other Authors: Society of Exploration Geophysics
Format: Conference Paper
Published: SEG 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/45988
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Summary:We propose a new method for measuring velocities and polarizations of the compressional and shear waves. The method consists of measuring time dependent displacement of a particular point on the sample surface in three independent directions by a laser Doppler interferometer. The high accuracy of these measurements makes the determination of the polarization straightforward, and thus the identification the type of the waves unambiguous. These measurements can be used to estimate the stiffness tensor of anisotropic rock samples.