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Interference Seismic Waves - NDGF008
Title: Interferenční seismické vlny
Guaranteed by: Department of Geophysics (32-KG)
Faculty: Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Actual: from 2016
Semester: both
E-Credits: 3
Hours per week, examination: 2/0, Ex [HT]
Capacity: unlimited
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech, English
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Note: you can enroll for the course in winter and in summer semester
Guarantor: doc. RNDr. Oldřich Novotný, CSc.
Class: DS, geofyzika
Classification: Physics > Geophysics
Annotation -
Last update: T_KG (20.05.2002)
Main types of elastic waves and their properties. Historical development of the theory of elasticity and of the theory of seismic waves. Separation of the elastodynamic equations. Rayleigh and Love waves in simple models of the medium. Matrix methods for Love and Rayleigh waves in a layered medium. Matrix formulation of some body-wave problems. Wave propagation in dispersive media.
Aim of the course -
Last update: T_KG (11.04.2008)

Significant parts of seismograms are composed of interference waves, especially of seismic surface waves and converted body waves. Students will learn the processing of their records and computing their dispersion in simple models of the medium.

Course completion requirements -
Last update: prof. RNDr. František Gallovič, Ph.D. (10.06.2019)

Oral exam

Literature - Czech
Last update: RNDr. Pavel Zakouřil, Ph.D. (05.08.2002)
  • M. Bath: Introduction to Seismology. Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel 1979 (second edition).
  • T.A. Proskuryakova, O. Novotny, E.V. Voronina: Studies of the Earth's Structure by the Surface-Wave Method (Central Europe). Nauka, Moscow 1981 (rusky).
  • B.L.N. Kennett: Seismic Wave Propagation in Stratified Media. Cambridge University Press, New York 1983.
  • V.I. Kejlis-Borok (ed.): Seismic Surface Waves in a Laterally Inhomogeneous Earth. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht 1989.
  • X. Chen: A systematic and efficient method of computing normal modes for multilayered half-space. Geophys. J. Int. 115 (1993), 391-409.
  • O. Novotný: Seismic Surface Waves. UFBA, Salvador, Bahia 1999 (Lecture notes).

Teaching methods -
Last update: T_KG (11.04.2008)

Lecture

Requirements to the exam - Czech
Last update: prof. RNDr. František Gallovič, Ph.D. (06.10.2017)

Zkouška je ústní, požadavky odpovídají sylabu v rozsahu prezentovaném na přednášce.

Syllabus -
Last update: T_KG (20.05.2002)
1. Main types of elastic waves and their properties

Body waves, surface waves. Wave dispersion.

2. Historical development of the theory of elasticity and of the theory of seismic surface waves

Theory of elasticity in the 17th and 18th centuries. Propagation of light and the theory of elasticity. Mathematical theory of elasticity. Beginnings of seismology. Studies of other types of surface waves (channel waves and higher modes, PL waves and leaking modes, microseisms).

3. Principles of continuum mechanics

Mathematical models in physics. Displacement vector. Strain tensor. Stress vector and stress tensor. Stress-strain relations. Equations of motion.

4. Separation of the elastodynamic equations in a homogeneous isotropic medium

Wave equations for potentials. Expressions of the displacement and stress in terms of potentials. Special expressions for P-SV and SH problems. Plane waves. Surface waves as superpositions of body waves.

5. Rayleigh waves in a homogeneous isotropic half-space

Potentials for a plane harmonic Rayleigh wave; displacement and stress components; boundary conditions. Velocity of Rayleigh waves. Polarization.

6. Love waves in a layer on a half-space

Dispersion equation and its solutions. Derivation of the dispersion relation from the condition of constructive interference. Methods of computing the group velocity.

7. Rayleigh waves in a layer on a half-space

Dispersion equation. Another form of the dispersion equation.

8. Matrix methods for Love waves in a layered medium

Model of the medium. Matrix for one layer and for a stack of layers. Dispersion equation. Forms of the dispersion equation; Thomson-Haskell matrices.

9. Matrix methods for Rayleigh waves in a layered medium

Thomson-Haskell matrices and their modifications. Associated matrices and reduced associated matrices. Knopoff's method. Computing reflection and transmission coefficients.

10. Matrix formulation of some body-wave problems

Motion of the surface of a layered medium caused by an incident SH wave. Reflection and transmission coefficients of SH waves for a transition zone. Spectral ratio of the horizontal and vertical components of P waves. Reflection and transmission coefficients of P and SV waves for a transition zone.

11. Wave propagation in dispersive media

Superposition of two plane harmonic waves in a non-dispersive and in dispersive medium. Propagation of a plane wave with a narrow spectrum, and with a broad spectrum. The peak and trough technique for estimating group and phase velocities from observations. Determination of phase velocities from Fourier spectra. Time-frequency analysis.

12. Examples of structural studies by surface waves

Short-period surface waves generated by explosions and their interpretation. Surface waves generated by earthquakes and their application in studies of the Earth's crust and upper mantle.

References:

  • M. Bath: Introduction to Seismology. Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel 1979 (second edition).
  • T.A. Proskuryakova, O. Novotny, E.V. Voronina: Studies of the Earth's Structure by the Surface-Wave Method (Central Europe). Nauka, Moscow 1981. (In Russian).
  • B.L.N. Kennett: Seismic Wave Propagation in Stratified Media. Cambridge University Press, New York 1983.
  • V.I. Kejlis-Borok (ed.): Seismic Surface Waves in a Laterally Inhomogeneous Earth. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht 1989.
  • X. Chen: A systematic and efficient method of computing normal modes for multilayered half-space. Geophys. J. Int. 115 (1993), 391-409.
  • O. Novotný: Seismic Surface Waves. UFBA, Salvador, Bahia 1999 (Lecture notes).

 
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