Authors:F.B. Poletto, F. Miranda,
Publisher: Pergamo
Keywords: seismic, exploration, handbook, geophysical, bit, drill, drilling, volume, fundamentals
Number of Pages: 546
Published: 2004-07-14
List price: $200.00
ISBN-10: 0080439284
ISBN-13: 9780080439280
The purpose of this book is to give a theoretical and practical introduction to seismic-while-drilling by using the drill-bit noise. This recent technology offers important products for geophysical control of drilling. It involves aspects typical of borehole seismics and of the drilling control surveying, hitherto the sole domain of mudlogging.For aspects related to the drill-bit source performance and borehole acoustics, the book attempts to provide a connection between experts working in geophysics and in drilling.There are different ways of thinking related to basic knowledge, operational p
Author: Finley A. Charney
Publisher: ASCE Press (American Society of Civil Engineeers
Keywords: seismic, asce, provisions, guide, loads, load
Number of Pages: 246
Published: 2010-05-12
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 0784410763
ISBN-13: 9780784410769
Seismic Loads: Guide to the Seismic Load Provisions of ASCE 7-05 provides authoritative explanations of the seismic provisions offered in Minimum Design Loads for Buildings and Other Structures, ASCE/SEI 7-05. With clear, concise language Seismic Loads illustrates the key concepts and guides structural engineers in applying the most current thinking in this rapidly changing discipline into the design of new structures. The book offers more than 20 detailed examples that analyze specific provisions of the standard and demonstrate the application of the provision in evaluating the seismic load
Author: C. MacBeth
Publisher: Pergamon
Keywords: seismic, exploration, anisotropy, geophysical, handbook, applied, component, vsp, analysis, multi
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2002-02-20
List price: $157.00
ISBN-10: 0080424392
ISBN-13: 9780080424392
The vertical seismic profile, acquired with an array of 3C receivers and either a single source or several arranged in a multi-component configuration, provides an ideal high fidelity calibration tool for seismic projects involved in the application of seismic anisotropy. This book catalogues the majority of specialized tools necessary to work with P-P, P-S and S-S data from such VSP surveys at the acquisition design, processing and interpretation stages. In particular, it discusses 3C, 4C, 6C and 9C VSP, marine and land surveys with near and multiple offsets (walkways), azimuths (walkaround
Author: M.A. Slawinski
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Keywords: seismic, exploration, handbook, geophysical, volume, media, waves, rays, elastic
Number of Pages: 424
Published: 2003-08-18
List price: $182.00
ISBN-10: 0080439306
ISBN-13: 9780080439303
This book seeks to explore seismic phenomena in elastic media and emphasizes the interdependence of mathematical formulation and physical meaning. The purpose of this title - which is intended for senior undergraduate and graduate students as well as scientists interested in quantitative seismology - is to use aspects of continuum mechanics, wave theory and ray theory to describe phenomena resulting from the propagation of waves.The book is divided into three parts: Elastic continua, Waves and rays, and Variational formulation of rays. In Part I, continuum mechanics are used to describe the ma
Author: Y. Wang
Publisher: Pergamon
Keywords: seismic, exploration, vol, geophysical, handbook, tomography, amplitude, inversion, reflection
Number of Pages: 270
Published: 2003-03-11
List price: $119.00
ISBN-10: 0080442439
ISBN-13: 9780080442433
This is the first book of its kind on seismic amplitude inversion in the context of reflection tomography. The aim of the monograph is to advocate the use of ray-amplitude data, separately or jointly with traveltime data, in reflection seismic tomography.The emphasis of seismic exploration is on imaging techniques, so that seismic section can be interpreted directly as a geological section. In contrast it is perhaps ironic that, in decades of industrial seismology, one major aspect of waveform data that potentially is easier to measure and analyse has generally been ignored. That is, the infor
Author: Paul P. Veeke
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Keywords: seismic, exploration, handbook, geophysical, volume, reservoir, stratigraphy, basin, analysis, characterisation
Number of Pages: 522
Published: 2007-01-03
List price: $187.00
ISBN-10: 0080453112
ISBN-13: 9780080453118
The interest in seismic stratigraphic techniques to interpret reflection datasets is well established. The advent of sophisticated subsurface reservoir studies and 4D monitoring, for optimising the hydrocarbon production in existing fields, does demonstrate the importance of the 3D seismic methodology. The added value of reflection seismics to the petroleum industry has clearly been proven over the last decades. Seismic profiles and 3D cubes form a vast and robust data source to unravel the structure of the subsurface. It gets nowadays exploited in ever greater detail. Larger offsets and veloc
Author: I. Tsvankin
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Keywords: seismic, exploration, volume, geophysical, media, handbook, anisotropic, signatures, analysis, reflection, data
Number of Pages: 454
Published: 2005-06-27
List price: $128.00
ISBN-10: 0080446183
ISBN-13: 9780080446189
Following the breakthrough in the last decade in identifying the key parameters for time and depth imaging in anisotropic media and developing practical methodologies for estimating them from seismic data, this title primarily focuses on the far reaching exploration benefits of anisotropic processing.This volume provides the first comprehensive description of reflection seismic signatures and processing methods in anisotropic media. It identifies the key parameters for time and depth imaging in transversely isotropic media and describes practical methodologies for estimating them from seismic
