This chapter contains excerpts from “Seismic tomography, adjoint methods, time reversal, and banana-doughnut kernels,” by Jeroen Tromp, Carl Tape, and Qinya Liu. My primary contribution to this study was to adapt a 2D SEM wave propagation code to construct finitefrequency kernels. In a series of numerical experiements, I illustrated the formation of finitefrequency sensitivity kernels via the i...

In this paper, a global limit state function for load-carrying capacity of structural system is firstly set up, in which the margin of safety is the difference between the limit base shear of structural system and the total horizontal seismic action. To probabilistically assess the global seismic capacity of structure, a new point estimation method (PEM) for analyzing statistical moments of com...

Seismic interferometry allows one to create a virtual source inside a medium, assuming a receiver is present at the position of the virtual source. We discuss a method that creates a virtual source inside a medium from reflection data measured at the surface, without needing a receiver inside the medium and, hence, presenting and advantage over seismic interferometry. In addition to the reflect...

One of the greatest causes of casualties in major earthquakes around the world is the collapse of non-engineered masonry buildings (those built without engineering input). Yet by definition non-engineered structures remain largely outside of the scope of modern engineering research, meaning that the majority of those at risk often remain so. A further barrier to realising research in this field...

reservoir characterization plays an important role in different parts of an industrial project. the results from a reservoir characterization study give insight into rock and fluid properties which can optimize the choice of drilling locations and reduce risk and uncertainty. delineating hydrocarbon bearing zones within a reservoir is the main objective of any seismic reservoir characterization...

Reservoir characterization plays an important role in different parts of an industrial project. The results from a reservoir characterization study give insight into rock and fluid properties which can optimize the choice of drilling locations and reduce risk and uncertainty. Delineating hydrocarbon bearing zones within a reservoir is the main objective of any seismic reservoir characterization...

seismic coherency is a measure of lateral changes in acoustic impedance that are caused by variations in structure, stratigraphy, lithology, porosity, and fluid content. seismic coherency is a geometrical attribute that establishes temporal and lateral relationships with other attributes. seismic coherency can be defined by coherency attributes. when coherency attributes are applied to seismic ...

Mathematical morphology has its applications in both optical and acoustic image analysis and is useful in image cleaning, image enhancement, feature selection and extraction, quantitative analysis, etc. Morphology has the capabilities of performing quantitative analysis of images using morphological operation. Partial differential equation(PDE) is employed for Anisotropic Diffusion filtering te...

The Spectral decomposition of seismic data was incepted earlier in the second half of the 19th century, howeverlimited research work has been done in this filed because of lack of availability of advancetools/ techniques for analysis of transient signal like earthquake time historyrecords. Although, there are several conventional techniques like Fourier Transform (FT),Fourier Series (FS)that ar...