The VELA Program. A Twenty-Five Year Review of Basic Research

Abstract

Partial Contents: A Review of Test Ban Research; Underground Nuclear Weapons Testing and Seismology - A Cooperative Effort; Forensic Seismology; Technical Issues Related to Nuclear Test Ban Treaties; VELA Overview: The Early Years of the Seismic Research Program; Explosion/Earthquake Source Theory; Linear Elastic Waveform Modeling in the Inelastic Region of Underground Nuclear Explosions; Seismic Wave Propagation Effects; Development of Theory and Numerical Modeling; In-Situ Paths Strain and Stress Bounds with Application to Desert Alluvium; Seismic Scattering and Lithospheric Heterogeneity; Body Wave Propagation in three-Dimensional Source and Receiver Structure; Instrumentation and Signal Analysis; Regional Seismic Array Program and High Frequency Instrumentation; Signal Analysis: Explosion Seismology; Earthquake or Explosion: Where are We Now?; Teleseismic Methods; Regional Methods; and Tools for Seismic Data Analysis and Management for Research and International Data Exchange.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1985
Accession Number
ADA222289

Entities

People

  • Ann U. Kerr

Organizations

  • Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Autonomy
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Sensors
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Databases
  • Doppler Effect
  • Geography
  • Geometry
  • Information Science
  • Measurement
  • Mechanics
  • Network Science
  • Ridges
  • Seabed
  • Standing Waves
  • Surveys
  • Terrain
  • Three Dimensional
  • Topography

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Seismology
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.