[1] In order to use ambient seismic noise for mapping Earth’s structure, it is important to understand the spatiotemporal characteristics of the noise field. This study uses data collected during four austral winter months of 2002 to investigate New Zealand’s ambient seismic noise field in the double-ocean-wave-frequency range (0.1–0.3 Hz). It is shown via beamforming analysis that there are tw...

We use the multi-channel analysis of surface waves (MASW) method to analyze synthetic seismic data calculated from models that produce very similar high-velocity dispersion curve gradients at low frequencies. The MASW dispersioncurve images of the Rayleigh wave were obtained from data calculated using simple layered models with high (2-layer) and gradual (10-layer) shear-wave velocity (Vs) vert...

By combining a quantum treatment of the radiation field with a superoperator formalism we present compact expressions for a broad variety of coherent and incoherent nonlinear optical signals. Spontaneous signals are classified according to the molecular coherence range: homodyne detected signals result from long range two particle coherence whereas Rayleigh and hyper-Rayleigh scattering are sho...

Phase velocity and attenuation of guided waves have been estimated from multireceiver, full waveform, acoustic logging data using the extended Prony's method. Since a formation affects velocity and attenuation, estimating these quantities is important in evaluating the formation properties. The estimation is performed using an array processing technique which requires two steps: (1) the traces ...

In recent years Rayleigh waves have been used increasingly as a nondestructive tool to obtain near-surface S-wave velocity, one of the key parameters in environmental and engineering applications (Miller et al., 1999a, 1999b; Park et al., 1998, 1999; Xia et al., 1999, 2003; Foti et al., 2002; Beaty and Schmitt, 2003; Tian et al., 2003; Zhang and Chan, 2003; Lin and Chang, 2004; O’Neill et al., ...

The present paper is an investigation on the propagation of Rayleigh surface waves in a homogeneous, isotropic, thermally conducting microstretch elastic solid half-space in the context of non classical (generalized) theories of thermoelasticity. The secular equations in closed form and isolated mathematical conditions are derived for Rayleigh wave propagation in such solids. The amplitude rati...

In this paper we report on progress using ambient noise correlation with a dense 3D survey conducted in Long Beach, California, to estimate subsurface velocity. We show that both Rayleigh wave and body wave signals can be clearly observed between 0.2-10 Hz frequency range in the noise cross-correlations. The observed signals also compare well with an active source gather. We apply eikonal tomog...

Wave con2gurations for modes I and II of crack propagation in an elastic triangular-cell lattice are studied. [Mode III was considered in Part I of the paper: Slepyan, L.I. Feeding and dissipative waves in fracture and phase transition. I. Some 1D structures and a square-cell lattice. J. Mech. Phys. Solids 49 (2001) 469.] A general solution incorporates a complete set of the feeding and dissipa...