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This report contains the results of work completed during the eleventh year of the Borehole Acoustics and Logging Consortium in the Earth Resources Laboratory at M.LT. We continued our trend toward more general borehole acoustics instead of just full waveform logging. In this report we have paper...

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Main Author: Cheng, C. H.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Earth Resources Laboratory
Format: Technical Report
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Earth Resources Laboratory 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/75198
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description This report contains the results of work completed during the eleventh year of the Borehole Acoustics and Logging Consortium in the Earth Resources Laboratory at M.LT. We continued our trend toward more general borehole acoustics instead of just full waveform logging. In this report we have papers related to borehole radiation as well as reception patterns, as well as more theoretical work on the Green's function of an anisotropic medium. The borehole reception pattern paper is the continuation of the work from last year, where we dealt with the receiver pattern in an open borehole. This year the work is extended to include cased boreholes. On the subject of borehole radiation, this year we have two papers dealing with the radiated seismic wavefield away from a borehole. The interest is in the areas of downhole sources as applied to single hole imaging, measurement while drilling, reverse vertical seismic profiling, as well as cross borehole tomography. In all these areas how the source energy is coupled into the borehole under different situations is of tremendous interest. On the more traditional full waveform acoustic logging side, we have a paper dealing with logging in a randomly heterogeneous formation, and one on the effect of permeability heterogeneity on the measured Stoneley wave velocity and attenuation. We also have a paper on the ultrasonic modeling of shear wave logging in an azimuthally anisotropic formation. On the numerical side, we have one paper on a fourth-order staggered-grid finite difference formulation of full waveform logging in a transversely isotropic formation with vertically varying properties, and one on the formulation of an optimal absorbing boundary condition for finite difference elastic wave propagation algorithms. Finally, as a continuation of previous work, we are working to improve our algorithm to location microearthquakes generated by hydraulic fracturing and thus provide a better location of the fracture in a three-dimensional space. A more detailed summary of the papers follows.
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spelling mit-1721.1/751982019-04-12T20:31:20Z Report Summary Cheng, C. H. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Earth Resources Laboratory Cheng, C. H. This report contains the results of work completed during the eleventh year of the Borehole Acoustics and Logging Consortium in the Earth Resources Laboratory at M.LT. We continued our trend toward more general borehole acoustics instead of just full waveform logging. In this report we have papers related to borehole radiation as well as reception patterns, as well as more theoretical work on the Green's function of an anisotropic medium. The borehole reception pattern paper is the continuation of the work from last year, where we dealt with the receiver pattern in an open borehole. This year the work is extended to include cased boreholes. On the subject of borehole radiation, this year we have two papers dealing with the radiated seismic wavefield away from a borehole. The interest is in the areas of downhole sources as applied to single hole imaging, measurement while drilling, reverse vertical seismic profiling, as well as cross borehole tomography. In all these areas how the source energy is coupled into the borehole under different situations is of tremendous interest. On the more traditional full waveform acoustic logging side, we have a paper dealing with logging in a randomly heterogeneous formation, and one on the effect of permeability heterogeneity on the measured Stoneley wave velocity and attenuation. We also have a paper on the ultrasonic modeling of shear wave logging in an azimuthally anisotropic formation. On the numerical side, we have one paper on a fourth-order staggered-grid finite difference formulation of full waveform logging in a transversely isotropic formation with vertically varying properties, and one on the formulation of an optimal absorbing boundary condition for finite difference elastic wave propagation algorithms. Finally, as a continuation of previous work, we are working to improve our algorithm to location microearthquakes generated by hydraulic fracturing and thus provide a better location of the fracture in a three-dimensional space. A more detailed summary of the papers follows. 2012-12-04T15:49:55Z 2012-12-04T15:49:55Z 1993 Technical Report http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/75198 Earth Resources Laboratory Industry Consortia Annual Report;1993-01 application/pdf Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Earth Resources Laboratory
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