The Effects of Near-Source Topography on Explosion Waveforms: Teleseismic Observations and Linear Finite Difference Calculations.

Abstract

This report consists of three papers: Boundary Conditions for Arbitrary Polygonal Topography in a 2-D Elastic Finite-difference Scheme for Seismogram Generation; Teleseismic Spectral and Temporal Explosion Moment and Reduced Displacement Potential Estimates for Four French Explosions in Southern Sahara; Scattering from Near-Source Topography -- Teleseismic Observations and Numerical 2-D Explosive Line Source Simulations; Keywords: Primary seismic waves, Deconvolution; Two dimensional; Seismic data; Ahaggar Plateau.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 1986
Accession Number
ADA183013

Entities

People

  • Alison C. Lees
  • Keith L. Mclaughlin
  • Rong-song Jih
  • Zoltan A. Der

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Earth Sciences
  • Elastic Waves
  • Explosives
  • Far Field
  • Frequency
  • Geography
  • Geophysics
  • Nuclear Explosions
  • Planetary Sciences
  • Poisson Ratio
  • Scattering
  • Simulations
  • Topography
  • Two Dimensional
  • Wave Propagation
  • Waveforms

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Finite Element Method (FEM) for solving Partial Differential Equations (PDEs)
  • Seismology