Viscoelastic Waves and Rays in Layered Media
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Viscoelastic Waves and Rays in Layered Media

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Viscoelastic Waves and Rays in Layered Media

About this book

This second edition extends the rigorous, self-contained exposition of the theory for viscoelastic wave propagation in layered media to include head waves and general ray theory. The theory, not published elsewhere, provides solutions for fundamental wave-propagation and ray-theory problems valid for any media with a linear response, elastic or anelastic. It explains measurable variations in wave speed, particle motion, and attenuation of body waves, surface waves, and head waves induced at anelastic material boundaries that do not occur for elastic waves. This book may be used as a textbook for advanced university courses and as a research reference in seismology, exploration geophysics, engineering, solid mechanics, and acoustics. It provides computation steps for ray-tracing computer algorithms to develop a variety of tomography inferred anelastic models, such as those for the Earth's deep interior and petroleum reserves. Numerical results and problem sets emphasize important aspects of the theory for each chapter.

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Information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2020
Print ISBN
9781108495691
eBook ISBN
9781108852241
Edition
2
Topic
Physical Sciences
Subtopic
Geophysics

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright information
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Preface
  8. Historical Prologue
  9. 1 One-Dimensional Viscoelasticity
  10. 2 Three-Dimensional Viscoelasticity
  11. 3 Viscoelastic P, SI, and SII Waves
  12. 4 Framework for Single-Boundary Reflection-Refraction and Surface-Wave Problems
  13. 5 General P, SI, and SII Waves Incident on a Viscoelastic Boundary
  14. 6 Numerical Models for General Waves Reflected and Refracted at Viscoelastic Boundaries
  15. 7 General SI, P, and SII Waves Incident on a Viscoelastic Free Surface
  16. 8 Rayleigh-Type Surface Wave on a Viscoelastic Half Space
  17. 9 General SII Waves Incident on Multiple Layers of Viscoelastic Media
  18. 10 Love-Type Surface Waves in Multilayered Viscoelastic Media
  19. 11 General Viscoelastic Ray Theory
  20. 12 Appendices
  21. References
  22. Additional Reading – first edition
  23. Additional Reading – second edition (Observations, Empirical Interpretations, and Applications of the Theory of Viscoelastic Waves in Layered Media)
  24. Index