The first applications of acoustic devices to chemical detection were proposed by Sauerbray in 1959 [1]. For application in liquid media, mainly quartz microbalance (QCM) sensors have been investigated. Recent works on Love waves devices for gas detection have demonstrated definitely their superiority, in particular in term of mass loading effect sensitivity [2]. As the shear horizontal polariz...

[1] Recordings in western Tibet of Rayleigh and Love waves at periods less than 70 s from aftershocks of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake cannot be matched by an isotropic velocity model beneath Tibet. These intermediate‐period Rayleigh and Love waves require marked radial anisotropy in the middle crust of Tibet, with the vertically polarized S‐ waves propagating more slowly than S‐waves with horizo...

S U M M A R Y The main purpose of seismic inversion is the retrieval of seismic velocities and densities in the earth. Inversion of body-wave traveltimes cannot uniquely determine the seismic velocities as a function of depth when a low-velocity layer is present. It is generally assumed that surface waves do not suffer from the same non-uniqueness. The issue is addressed whether it is possible ...

A model for the mass sensitivity of Love wave and layer guided shear horizontal acoustic plate mode ~SH–APM! sensors is developed by considering the propagation of shear horizontally polarized acoustic waves in a three layer system. A dispersion equation is derived for this three layer system and this is shown to contain the dispersion equation for the two layer system of the substrate and the ...

The effect of dispersion on acoustic wave sensors is considered. The discussion is focused upon layer guided surface acoustic waves ~Love waves!, which obtain their high mass sensitivity for the first Love wave mode by optimizing the guiding layer thickness, d, such that d;l l/4; the wavelength in the layer is given by l l5 f /v l where f is the operating frequency and v l is the shear acoustic...

Observations of Love and Rayleigh waves on WWSSN and Canadian Network seismograms have been used to place constraints upon the source parameters of the August 1, 1975, Oroville earthquake. The 20-sec surface-wave magnitude is 5.6. The surface-wave radiation pattern is consistent with the fault geometry determined by the body-wave study of Langston and Butler (1976). The seismic moment of this e...