Electrical Conductivity-Based Estimation of Unfrozen Water Content in Saturated Saline Frozen Sand

Elasticity of partially saturated frozen sand (short note)

Seasonal thawing and freezing of near-surface sediments significantly affect the interpretation of seismic reflection surveys and vertical seismic profiling, as well as activity on the surface. Permafrost covers much of the Earth’s colder regions and is also subject to periodic thawing and freezing. The significance of the regions with large seasonal temperature variations for exploration and e...

Evidence of dispersion in an artificial water-saturated sand sediment.

A laboratory experiment was conducted to measure the speed of sound in an artificial water-saturated granular sediment composed of cleaned and sorted medium-grained sand and degassed distilled water. The experiment was conducted within a range of frequencies where dispersion is predicted by a number of existing models. Between 2 and 4 kHz, the sound speed was inferred from measurements of the r...

The Influence of Soil Water Content, Calcite Content, and Temperature on Bulk Electrical Conductivity

Wave Propagation in Water‐saturated Sand and Grain Contact Physics

Measurements in sandy ocean sediments over a broad range of frequencies show that the sound speed dispersion is significantly greater than that predicted by the Biot-Stoll model with constant coefficients, and the observed sound attenuation does not seem to follow a consistent power law. The observations may be explained in terms of the Biot-Stoll model with frequency-dependent complex frame bu...

An Empirical Correlation for Estimation of the Thermal Conductivity of Saturated Liquid Refrigerants

Thermodynamic data on environmental refrigerants have attracted considerable interest in the optimization and design of heat compressors, exchangers and other refrigeration equipment. In this study, An optimization algorithm was used to obtain the constant parameters of the new empirical model by fitting them to the source databank. The model was used to calculate the constant coefficients of t...