Utilizing ultrasonic waves in the investigation of contact stresses, areas, and embedment of spheres in manufactured materials replicating proppants and brittle rocks

KF Bou-Hamdan, AH Abbas - Arabian Journal for Science and …, 2022 - Springer
In the oil and gas industry, hydraulic fracturing (HF) is a common application to create
additional permeability in unconventional reservoirs. Using proppant in HF requires …

Review of current simple ultrasound hardware considerations, designs, and processing opportunities

L Jonveaux, C Schloh, W Meng, J Arija… - Journal of Open …, 2022 - ojs.lib.uwo.ca
Ultrasound is one of the most widely used imaging tools for non-destructive testing (NDT)
and non-invasive medical diagnosis. Since its beginnings in the 1950s, ultrasound imaging …

Picking of first arrival times on noisy ultrasonic S-wave signals for concrete and rock materials

AE Babacan, H Karsli, M Senkaya - Acta Geodaetica et Geophysica, 2023 - Springer
Ultrasonic testing techniques are non-invasive and generally used in geosciences to obtain
the longitudinal and shear wave velocities for either concrete or rock materials, which are …

Geophysical site assessment of soil and the rock structure in karst terrain using 2D and 3D mapping of noninvasive electrical resistivity tomography—southwestern of …

D Alfuqara, N Anderson - Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 2023 - Springer
Electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) data were collected in a heavily Karstic area in
southwest MO. The interpretation of the study has highlighted that the data of electrical …