Physics – Geophysics
Scientific paper
2009-01-13
Physics
Geophysics
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (2009) accepted
Scientific paper
Ultrasonic waves propagating in solids have stress-dependent velocities. The relation between stress (or strain) and velocity forms the basis of non-linear acoustics. In homogeneous solids, conventional time-of-flight techniques have measured this dependence with spectacular precision. In heterogeneous media like concrete, the direct (ballistic) wave around 500 kHz is strongly attenuated and conventional techniques are less efficient. In this manuscript, the effect of weak stress changes on the late arrivals constituting the acoustic diffuse coda is tracked. A resolution of $2.10^{-5}$ in relative velocity change is attained which corresponds to a sensitivity to stress change of better than 50 kPa. Therefore the technique described here provides an original way to measure the non-linear parameter with stress variations on the order of tens of kPa.
Hall Stephen
Larose Éric
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