Shear wave transducer for boreholes
Abstract
A technique and apparatus is provided for estimating in situ stresses by measuring stress-induced velocity anisotropy around a borehole. Two sets each of radially and tangentially polarized transducers are placed inside the hole with displacement directions either parallel or perpendicular to the principal stress directions. With this configuration, relative travel times are measured by both a pulsed phase-locked loop technique and a cross correlation of digitized waveforms. The biaxial velocity data are used to back-calculate the applied stress.
- Publication:
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Patent Application Department of Energy
- Pub Date:
- August 1984
- Bibcode:
- 1984doe..reptT....M
- Keywords:
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- Anisotropy;
- Boreholes;
- Stress Analysis;
- Transducers;
- Waves;
- Displacement;
- Patent Applications;
- Phase Locked Systems;
- Waveforms;
- Instrumentation and Photography