Crustal stress determination from boreholes and rock cores: Fundamental principles

DR Schmitt, CA Currie, L Zhang - Tectonophysics, 2012 - Elsevier
Obtaining quantitative information on the state of stress in the crust can only be
accomplished by accessing the zone of interest by drilling. The borehole cavity, however …

Hybrid virtual interferometry technique based on stacking of neighboring virtual traces to enhance acoustic logging data

S Xu, S Li, Z Zou - Surveys in Geophysics, 2024 - Springer
The accurate extraction of useful signals from the measurement data is one of the important
parts and challenges of the understanding of subsurface information. The desired signal is …

Single-well S-wave imaging using multicomponent dipole acoustic-log data

XM Tang, DJ Patterson - Geophysics, 2009 - library.seg.org
Single-well S-wave imaging has several attractive features because of its directional
sensitivity and usefulness for fracture characterization. To provide a method for single-well …

A unified theory for elastic wave propagation through porous media containing cracks—An extension of Biot's poroelastic wave theory

XM Tang - Science China Earth Sciences, 2011 - Springer
Rocks in earth's crust usually contain both pores and cracks. This phenomenon significantly
affects the propagation of elastic waves in earth. This study describes a unified elastic wave …

A cracked porous medium elastic wave theory and its application to interpreting acoustic data from tight formations

XM Tang, X Chen, X Xu - Geophysics, 2012 - library.seg.org
Rocks in the earth's crust usually contain pores and cracks. Typical examples include tight
sandstone and shale rocks that have low porosity but contain abundant microcracks. By …

Extended Gassmann equation with dynamic volumetric strain: Modeling wave dispersion and attenuation of heterogeneous porous rocks

L Zhao, Y Wang, Q Yao, J Geng, H Li, H Yuan, D Han - Geophysics, 2021 - library.seg.org
Sedimentary rocks are often heterogeneous porous media inherently containing complex
distributions of heterogeneities (eg, fluid patches and cracks). Understanding and modeling …

Processing array acoustic-logging data to image near-borehole geologic structures

XM Tang, Y Zheng, D Patterson - Geophysics, 2007 - library.seg.org
Imaging near-borehole structures using acoustic-logging data depends on the data-
processing method used. We demonstrate that extracting the up-and downgoing reflections …

Seismic reflection dispersion due to wave-induced fluid flow in heterogeneous reservoir rocks

L Zhao, D Han, Q Yao, R Zhou, F Yan - Geophysics, 2015 - library.seg.org
We have investigated the impact of wave-induced fluid flow, including Biot flow and
mesoscopic flow, on the signatures of seismic reflectivity in heterogeneous reservoir rocks …

Shear-wave radiation, reception, and reciprocity of a borehole dipole source: With application to modeling of shear-wave reflection survey

XM Tang, J Cao, Z Wei - Geophysics, 2014 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The development of dipole shear-wave imaging technology requires understanding of the
effects of radiation, reflection, and reception of elastic waves from a borehole dipole source …

完全匹配层吸收边界在孔隙介质弹性波模拟中的应用

赵海波, 王秀明, 王东, 陈浩 - 地球物理学报, 2007 - dzkx.org
模拟弹性波在孔隙介质中传播, 需要稳定有效的吸收边界来消除或尽可能的减小由人工边界引起
的虚假反射. 本文在前人工作基础上, 首次建立了弹性孔隙介质情况下完全匹配层吸收边界的高 …