seismic attributes are very useful in seismic data interpretation. one of these attributes is the coherency attribute. seismic coherency is a complex trace and a geometrical attribute that is applied to a 3d cube of seismic data. it is a measure of lateral changes in acoustic impedance caused by the variation in structure, stratigraphy, lithology, porosity, and the presence of hydrocarbons. whe...

Composite RCS building frames integrate reinforced concrete columns with structural steel beams to provide an efficient solution for the design and construction of earthquake-resisting structures. In this paper, an optimization framework is developed for performance-based seismic design of planar RCS moment resisting frames. The objective functions are defined as minimizing the construction cos...

It is widely observed that seismic sources occurring very close to each other can share very similar waveforms. Using this property, an adaptive, automatic phase-picking and epicenter-locating program based on waveform cross-correlation has been developed and applied to process daily seismic data of New Mexico. The core of this program is a reference seismic event database, from which the phase...

We present a real-time procedure that uses cross-correlation and doubledifference methods to rapidly relocate new seismic events with high precision relative to past events with accurately known locations. Waveforms of new events are automatically cross correlated with those archived for nearby past events to measure accurate differential phase arrival times. These data, together with delay tim...

We have developed a case study of crosshole seismic tomography with a cross-firing geometry in which seismic sources were placed in two vertical boreholes alternatingly and receiver arrays were placed in another vertical borehole. There are two crosshole seismic data sets in a conventional sense. These two data sets are used jointly in seismic tomography. Because the local sediment is dominated...

In some cases, the variations in the subsurface rock property with time can be observed during fluid flow process because of changes in stress, pore pressure, temperature, degree of consolidation, and fluid content. Detecting these changes via their influence on the in situ elastic properties serves as the basis for timelapse monitoring. Acquisition and processing of high-fidelity time-lapse se...

the interactive effects of adjacent buildings on their seismic performance are not frequently considered in seismic design. the adjacent buildings, however, are interrelated through the soil during seismic ground motions. the seismic energy is redistributed in the neighboring buildings through multiple structure-soil-structure interactions (sssi). for example, in an area congested with many nea...

seismic tomography is an imaging technique which creates maps of subsurface elastic properties such as p/s wave velocity, density and attenuation, based on observed seismograms and use of sophisticated inversion algorithms. amongst different acquisition geometries, seismic cross-hole tomography has a special position in geophysical surveys with many applications in hydrocarbons, coal and other ...

Not too long ago, seismic imaging of the Earth’s interior relied almost exclusively on the illumination from energetic sources, such as earthquakes or artificial sources. However, recent theoretical and laboratory studies have shown that the impulse response (Green’s function) of a structure between two receivers can be obtained from the cross-correlation of “random” noise wavefields recorded a...