Structure Sensitivity and Elastic Anisotropy within Peridotites

Universal elastic anisotropy index.

Practically all elastic single crystals are anisotropic, which calls for an appropriate universal measure to quantify the extent of anisotropy. A review of the existing anisotropy measures in the literature leads to a conclusion that they lack universality in the sense that they are non-unique and ignore contributions from the bulk part of the elastic stiffness (or compliance) tensor. Proceedin...

Weak elastic anisotropy and the tube wave

Tube-wave speed in the presence of a weakly anisotropic formation can be expressed in terms of an effective shear modulus for an equivalent isotropic formation. When combined with expressions for the speeds of the SHand quasi-SV-waves along the borehole axis, a simple inversion procedure can be obtained to determine three of the five elasticities of a transversely isotropic (TI) formation tilte...

referred orientation and elastic anisotropy in shales

Anisotropy in shales is becoming an important issue in exploration and reservoir geophysics. In this study, the crystallographic preferred orientation of clay platelets that contributes to elastic anisotropy was determined quantitatively by hard monochromatic X-ray synchrotron diffraction in two different shales from drillholes off the coast of Nigeria. To analyze complicated diffraction images...

Significant elastic anisotropy in Ti1-xAlxN alloys

intercultural sensitivity instruction and interfaces among iranian efl learners intercultural sensitivity,language proficiency,ehnic and demograhic backgrounds:an ethnocentrism vs.ethnorelativism perspective

monumental changes occurring on a daily basis have altered the world into a global village of expanding technology and shrinking geography in which preparing language learners for intercultural communication seems to be a sine qua non for modern language education. employing a cross-sectional design in its first phase, this study investigated the intercultural sensitivity and language proficien...