Complete wave field synthetic seismograms for layered half‐space with surface sources: Repeated averaging for rapid convergence

1987 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Chang
Keyword(s):  
Wave Field ◽  
Half Space ◽  
Synthetic Seismograms ◽  
Rapid Convergence ◽  
Layered Half Space

Seismic Waves in a Laterally Inhomogeneous Layered Medium, Part I: Theory

1997 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruichong Zhang ◽  
Liyang Zhang ◽  
Masanobu Shinozuka
Keyword(s):  
Wave Field ◽  
Half Space ◽  
Seismic Waves ◽  
Scattered Wave ◽  
Inhomogeneous Layer ◽  
Dislocation Source ◽  
Seismic Dislocation ◽  
Body Forces ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Layered Half Space

Seismic waves in a layered half-space with lateral inhomogeneities, generated by a buried seismic dislocation source, are investigated in these two consecutive papers. In the first paper, the problem is formulated and a corresponding approach to solve the problem is provided. Specifically, the elastic parameters in the laterally inhomogeneous layer, such as P and S wave speeds and density, are separated by the mean and the deviation parts. The mean part is constant while the deviation part, which is much smaller compared to the mean part, is a function of lateral coordinates. Using the first-order perturbation approach, it is shown that the total wave field may be obtained as a superposition of the mean wave field and the scattered wave field. The mean wave field is obtainable as a response solution for a perfectly layered half-space (without lateral inhomogeneities) subjected to a buried seismic dislocation source. The scattered wave field is obtained as a response solution for the same layered half-space as used in the mean wave field, but is subjected to the equivalent fictitious distributed body forces that mathematically replace the lateral inhomogeneities. These fictitious body forces have the same effects as the existence of lateral inhomogeneities and can be evaluated as a function of the inhomogeneity parameters and the mean wave fleld. The explicit expressions for the responses in both the mean and the scattered wave fields are derived with the aid of the integral transform approach and wave propagation analysis.

Fast programs for layered half-space problems

1967 ◽  
Vol 57 (6) ◽  
pp. 1299-1315
Author(s):  
M. J. Randall
Keyword(s):  
Half Space ◽  
Matrix Method ◽  
Transfer Functions ◽  
Synthetic Seismograms ◽  
Time Function ◽  
Source Time Function ◽  
Fast Computer ◽  
The Matrix ◽  
Crustal Reflection ◽  
Layered Half Space

Abstract Knopoff's matrix method for the solution of P-SV problems has been somewhat simplified and modified to take account of oceanic structures. Advantage has been taken of a method of separating the frequency-dependent operations from the matrix multiplications to obtain very fast computer programs for calculating Rayleigh dispersion, crustal reflection functions, and crustal transfer functions. Applications include Rayleigh dispersion inversion, QitR, inversion, crustal investigations using pP, crustal transfer corrections to amplitude observations, and the construction of synthetic seismograms for investigation of the source time-function.

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