Rock Dynamics and Geophysical Exploration: Introduction to Stress Waves in Rocks

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Front Matter
Page III

Copyright page
Page IV

Foreword
Pages V-VI
LEIF N. PERSEN

Chapter 1 - Fundamental Equations
Pages 1-15

Chapter 2 - Some Characteristic Features of Plane Waves (Elastic Medium)
Pages 17-33

Chapter 3 - Some Characteristic Features of Spherical Waves (Elastic Medium)
Pages 35-52

Chapter 4 - Some Characteristic Features of a Cylindrical Wave (Elastic Medium)
Pages 53-67

Chapter 5 - The Harmonic Input Pulse (Elastic Medium)
Pages 69-77

Chapter 6 - Characteristic Features of Plane Waves (Kelvin Medium)
Pages 79-93

Chapter 7 - The Spherical Wave (Kelvin Medium)
Pages 95-108

Chapter 8 - Experimental Study of Stress Waves in Rocks
Pages 109-122

Chapter 9 - Experimental Results Compared with Theory
Pages 123-136

Chapter 10 - Evaluation of Data
Pages 137-153

Chapter 11 - Dispersion and Particle Acceleration: Application in the Evaluation of Data
Pages 155-174

Chapter 12 - Surface Explosions
Pages 175-194

Chapter 13 - Some Practical Problems
Pages 195-205

Chapter 14 - Sensitivity Criteria for Tunnels
Pages 207-228

Appendix I - Evaluation of the Inverse Laplace Transform
Pages 229-233

Appendix II - Tabiles for Smax
Pages 235-251

Appendix III - Tables for Ds/Dτmax
Pages 253-269

References
Page 271

Index
Pages 273-276