Elastic interface waves along a fracture
- 1 November 1987
- journal article
- Published by American Geophysical Union (AGU) in Geophysical Research Letters
- Vol. 14 (11) , 1107-1110
- https://doi.org/10.1029/gl014i011p01107
Abstract
Non‐welded interfaces can be treated as a displacement discontinuity characterized by elastic stiffnesses. Applying this boundary condition to a generalized Rayleigh wave, it is shown that a fast and a slow dispersive wave can propagate along the fracture, even when the seismic properties of the rock on each side are identical.Keywords
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