COHERENCE AND STRUCTURE

Geophysics ◽  
1974 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Mack

The wavefield generated at the surface of the earth from a surface seismic source can be represented as a function F(f, k) in the frequency wave‐number domain. This function depends upon the source and the propagation characteristics of the underlying structure. For any particular frequency the spatial coherence as observed at two points [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] on the surface is defined as: [Formula: see text]

2006 ◽  
Vol 128 (4) ◽  
pp. 477-488 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Chakraborty ◽  
S. Gopalakrishnan

A new spectral plate element (SPE) is developed to analyze wave propagation in anisotropic laminated composite media. The element is based on the first-order laminated plate theory, which takes shear deformation into consideration. The element is formulated using the recently developed methodology of spectral finite element formulation based on the solution of a polynomial eigenvalue problem. By virtue of its frequency-wave number domain formulation, single element is sufficient to model large structures, where conventional finite element method will incur heavy cost of computation. The variation of the wave numbers with frequency is shown, which illustrates the inhomogeneous nature of the wave. The element is used to demonstrate the nature of the wave propagating in laminated composite due to mechanical impact and the effect of shear deformation on the mechanical response is demonstrated. The element is also upgraded to an active spectral plate clement for modeling open and closed loop vibration control of plate structures. Further, delamination is introduced in the SPE and scattered wave is captured for both broadband and modulated pulse loading.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikita Rusakov ◽  
Georgy Baidakov ◽  
Evgeny Poplavsky ◽  
Yuliya Troitskaya ◽  
Maksim Vdovin

<p>The work is concerned with the study of the breaking surface wave effect on the intensity and spectral characteristics of a scattered radar signal in laboratory conditions.</p><p><span>The experiments were carried out on the reconstructed TSWiWaT wind wave flume of the IAP RAS. The channel is 12 m long, the channel cross-section varies from 0.7 x 0.7 m at the entrance to 0.7 x 0.9 m in the working section at a distance of 9 m. The airflow speed on the axis is 3-35 m/s, which corresponds to the values of the wind speed U</span><sub>10</sub><span> of 11-50 m/s.</span></p><p>The wave characteristics in the flume were measured by an array of three wave gauges positioned in the corners of an equal-side triangle with 2.5 cm side, the data sampling rate was 200 Hz. Such a system gives the opportunity to retrieve 3D frequency-wave number spectra of surface waves.</p><p>The airflow parameters were measured using the profiling method. The velocity profiles were measured in the working section using an S-shaped Pitot tube. Microwave measurements were carried out using an X-band coherent Doppler scatterometer with a wavelength of 3.2 cm with sequential reception of linear polarizations.  The absolute value of the radar cross-section (RCS) on the wavy water surface was determined by comparing the scattered signal with the signal reflected from the calibrator with a known value of the RCS - a metal ball with a diameter of 6 cm. The dimensions of the observation cross-section were 40 cm x 40 cm, the incidence angles were 30°, 40°, 50° for the upwind direction, the distance to the target was 3.15 m.</p><p>Two series of experiments were carried out. In the first case, wind waves on the surface of pure deep water, developing under the action of a fan generated wind, were studied. In the second case, a train of three waves was generated at the beginning of the channel, with the fan turned on, in order to simulate shallow water an inclined plate was placed under water in front of the measurement area. As a result, the breaking waves occurred at a fixed point and at weaker winds compared to the first case.</p><p>As a result, an increase in the scattered signal intensity during artificial wave breaking in the case of weak winds was noted. For strong winds, the effect turned out to be insignificant, despite the increased amplitude of the waves under study. The Doppler spectra analysis is also presented.</p><p>This work was supported by the RFBR projects No. 19-05-00249, 19-05-00366.  </p>


1979 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-119 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. J. Delph ◽  
G. Herrmann ◽  
R. K. Kaul

The problem of harmonic wave propagation in an unbounded, periodically layered elastic body in a state of plane strain is examined. The dispersion spectrum is shown to be governed by the roots of an 8 × 8 determinant, and represents a surface in frequency-wave number space. The spectrum exhibits the typical stopping band characteristic of wave propagation in a periodic medium. The dispersion equation is shown to uncouple along the ends of the Brillouin zones, and also in the case of wave propagation normal to the layering. The significance of this uncoupling is examined. Also, the asymptotic behavior of the spectrum for large values of the wave numbers is investigated.


2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhupeng Zheng ◽  
Ying Lei

Techniques based on ultrasonic guided waves (UGWs) play important roles in the structural health monitoring (SHM) of large-scale civil infrastructures. In this paper, dispersion equations of longitudinal wave propagation in reinforced concrete member are investigated for the purpose of monitoring steels embedded in concrete. For a steel bar embedded in concrete, not the velocity but the attenuation dispersion curves will be affected by the concrete. The effects of steel-to-concrete shear modulus ratio, density ratio, and Poisson’s ratio on propagation characteristics of guided wave in steel bar embedded in concrete were studied by the analysis of the real and imaginary parts of the wave number. The attenuation characteristics of guided waves of steel bar in different conditions including different bar concrete constraint and different diameter of steel bar are also analyzed. Studies of the influence of concrete on propagation characteristics of guided wave in steel bars embedded in concrete will increase the accuracy in judging the structure integrity and promote the level of defect detection for the steel bars embedded in concrete.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diane Rivet ◽  
Gauthier Guérin ◽  
Daniel Mata ◽  
Itzhak Lior ◽  
Anthony Sladen ◽  
...  

<p>Measuring seismic and acoustic signals on seafloor telecom cables has proven recently its very high potential for earthquake monitoring but also for beter understanding the interaction between the oceans and the solid earth. A consequence of these interactions is the generation of the primary and secondary microseismic noise on coastal regions and in the deep ocean respectively. These seismic noises that propagate across continents are central to a large fraction of todays' seismic imagery and monitoring campaigns. Compared to previous studies and instrumentation setups, acoustic sensing over oceanic telecom cables offer the unique ability to measure in a very dense manner waves that are generated on the seafloor. We analyse a week long record of ambient noise measurements on the 41.5 km-long seafloor telecom cable offshore Toulon, south of France. At shallow depth, close to the coast, we measure the pressure changes caused by the oceanic gravity waves. The bottom pressure is then compared to an oceanographic buoy located a few kilometers away from the cable. The amplitude and frequency of the pressure are modulated by the gravity waves height and dominant periods. This observation opens the way for a distributed measurement of the oceanic waves characteristics over several kilometers. At depth larger than a 1km, we observe Scholte waves at the ocean-solid earth interface produced by the non-linear interaction of gravity waves. These waves have the double frequency of the gravity waves seen at the coast. We find that the amplitude and frequency change over time, as do the gravity waves observed near the coast. The frequency-wave number decomposition of the signal reveals that the apparent velocity of the Scholte waves does not depend of the azimuth of the fiber. These observations confirm that these deep Scholte waves are secondary microseismic noise, generated locally from the interaction of landward gravity waves with oceanward gravity wave reflected on the coast. Spatially distributed monitoring of the ambient noise wave field at the ocean-solid earth interface provides a better understanding of the noise generation and therefore will allow a better modeling of the ambient noise in the future.</p>


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