Earthen dams and levees are prone to progressive failure through internal erosion of their structure. Internal erosion is often invisible to current methods of inspection until it manifests itself at the exterior surface. This study focuses on the novel use of passive seismic interferometry to monitor temporal changes in earthen embankments caused by internal erosion. This technique uses the am...

Blast-induced seismic wave is very important to theory study of structure damage and stability analysis of corresponding geotechnical engineering; however it is not well solved. Based on measured data of Lafarge quarry, shortcoming of traditional analysis method is pointed out. Wavelet analysis method is presented to describe spectral characteristics and energy distribution of blast-induced sei...

Conventional crosswell surveys are expensive because a source must be placed downhole, which means that the hole must be prepped and placed off-line for a number of days. We suggest an interesting but unproven alternative: place a source on the surface, drop a simple obstruction-like device downhole that scatters tube wave arrivals from the surface source, and use the scattered tube waves energ...

This paper presents ExxonMobil’s evolution of a direct sloshing assessment methodology to resolve several challenging technical issues that are essential for evaluating the integrity of LNG containment systems. Among the most significant developments is the introduction of a probabilistic-based framework that facilitates modeling of the high variability of sloshing impact pressures due to slosh...

Accurate modeling of seismic wave propagation in complex media is the key to many high end seismic processing algorithms. The performance is achieved by parallel implementation of algorithms on large compute clusters. This article describes the implementation of 3D acoustic and elastic wave propagation algorithms on a high performance computing system. A MPI (Massage Passing Interface) implemen...

CWI's research has a theme-oriented structure and is grouped into four clusters. Listed below are the names of the clusters and in parentheses their acronyms. 1. INTRODUCTION A feature of a seismic earthquake signal is that it is built up by several different seismic waves, characterizing the type of signal. In this paper we are only interested in two of these waves, namely the primary wave (P-...

We determine upper mantle seismic velocity heterogeneities below Southern California from the inversion of teleseismic travel-time residuals. Teleseismic P-wave arrival times are obtained from three temporary passive experiments and Southern California Seismic Network (SCSN) stations, producing good raypath coverage. The inversion is performed using a damped least-squares conjugate gradient met...

Abstract The ray series method may be generalized using a ray centered coordinate system for general 3D-heterogeneous media. This method is useful for Amplitude Versus Offset (AVO) seismic modeling, seismic analysis, interpretational purposes, and comparison with seismic field observations.For each central ray (constant ray parameter), the kinematic (the eikonal) and dynamic ray tracing system ...