Effect of Fractures on Seismic and Acoustic Wave Propagation
Journal Publications & Conference Proceedings:
Elastic Interface Waves along a Fracture
Pyrak-Nolte, L. J. and N.G.W. Cook 1987, Geophysical Research Letters, volume: 14 issue: (11) 1107-1110.
Seismic visibility of fractures
L.J. Pyrak-Nolte & N.G.W. Cook, L.R. Myer 1987, Rock Mechanics: Proceedings of the 28th U.S. Symposium, University of Arizona, Tucson, editors: I.W. Farmer, J.J.K. Daemen, C.S. Desai, C.E. Glass & S.P.Neuman, Pubs. A.A. Balkema (Rotterdam), 47-56, June 1987.
Transmission of Seismic Waves across Single Natural Fractures
Pyrak-Nolte, L. J., Myer, L. R. and N.G.W. Cook 1990, Journal of Geophysical Research, volume: 95 issue: (B6), pages: 8617-8638.
Anisotropy in Seismic Velocities and Amplitudes from Multiple Parallel Fractures
Pyrak-Nolte, L. J., Myer, L. R. and N.G.W. Cook 1990, Journal of Geophysical Research, volume: 95 issue: (B7), pages: 11,345-11,358.
Frequency Dependence of Fracture Stiffness
Pyrak-Nolte, L. J. and D. D. Nolte 1992, Geophysical Research Letters, volume: 19 issue: (3) pages 325-328.
Elastic Interface Waves along a Fracture: Theory and Experiment
Pyrak-Nolte, L. J., Xu, J. abd G. M. Haley, 1992 Physical Review Letters, v. 68, no. 24, p3650-3653.
Variation of Shear-Wave Amplitude during Frictional Sliding
W.Y. Chan, C.W. Lovell, G.M. Haley, L.J. Pyrak-Nolte 1993, International Journal of Rock Mechanics Mining Science & Geomechanics Abstracts , volume: 30 issue: (7) , pages: 779-784.
Wavelet Analysis of Velocity Dispersion of Elastic Interface Waves Propagating along a Fracture
Pyrak-Nolte, L. J. and D. D. Nolte 1995, Geophysical Research Letters, volume: 22 issue: (11), pages: 1329-1332.
Interface Waves Propagating along Tensile Fractures in Dolomite
Roy, S. and L. J. Pyrak-Nolte 1995, Geophysical Research Letters, volume: 22 issue: (20), pages: 2773-2776.
Fracture Interface Waves
Gu, B., Nihei, K.T., Myer, L.R. and L.J. Pyrak-Nolte, 1996, Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 101, no. B1, 827-835.
Elastic interface wave propagation along a fracture
K.Nihei, B. Gu, L. Myer, L .Pyrak-Nolte, N. Cook 1995, Proceedings of the Eighth International Congress on Rock Mechanics editors: Herausgeber & T. Fujii, Tokyo, Japan, pages: 1151-1157.
Interface waves along fractures
Pyrak-Nolte, L. J., Mullenbach, B. L., and S. Roy 1996, Journal of Applied Geophysics , pages: 35, 79-87.
Incipient Interface Waves used to Monitor Rock Failure
Pyrak-Nolte, L. J., Roy, S. and C. Neumann 1996, Proceedings of teh 2nd North American Rock Mechanics Symposium: NARMS'96 Montreal, Quebec, Canada editors: M. Aubertin, F. Hassani & H. Mitri, A. A. Balkema, Rotterdam, , pages: 1169-1175, 19-21 June 1996.
The Seismic Response of Fractures and the Interrelationships Among Fracture Properties
Pyrak-Nolte, L. J. 1996, International Journal of Rock Mechanics Mining Science & Geomechanics Abstracts, volume: 33 issue: (8), pages: 785-802.
Observation of a Distinct Compressional-Mode Interface Waves on a Single Fracture
Roy, S. and L. J. Pyrak-Nolte 1997, Geophysical Research Letters , volume: 24 issue: (2) , pages: 173-176.
Transition from the displacement discontinuity limit to the resonant scattering regime for fracture interface waves
Nolte, D. D., Pyrak-Nolte, L. J., Beachy, J. and C. Ziegler 2000, International Journal of Rock Mechanics Mining Science & Geomechanics Abstracts, volume: 37, pages: 219-230.
Monitoring Fracture Evolution with Compressional-Mode Interface Waves
Pyrak-Nolte, L. J. and S. Roy 2000, Geophysical Research Letters, volume: 27 issue: (20), pages: 3397-3400
Compressional Waves Guided between Parallel Fractures
Xian, C. J., Pyrak-Nolte, L. J. and D. D. Nolte 2001, International Journal of Rock Mechanics Mining Science & Geomechanics Abstracts
Seismic Focusing by a Single Fracture
Oliger, A., Nolte, D. D. and L. J. Pyrak-Nolte 2003, Geophysical Research Letters , volume: 30 issue: (5), pages: 1203, doi:10.1029/2002GL016264
Seismic Monitoring of Fracture Alteration by Mineral Deposition
Gilbert, Z. and L. J. Pyrak-Nolte 2004, Proceedings of Gulf Rocks 2004, 6th North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Houston, Texas
Fracture anisotropy: The role of fracture-stiffness gradients
L. J. Pyrak-Nolte 2007, The Leading Edge, volume: 26 issue: (9), pages: 1124-1127, September 2007
Laboratory-scale study of field of view and the seismic interpretation of fracture specific stiffness
A. Acosta-Colon, L. J. Pyrak-Nolte, D. D. Nolte 2009, Geophysical Prospecting, volume: 57 , pages: 209-224
Microbially-Induced Heterogeneity in the Acoustic Properties of Porous Media
Davis, C. A., L. J. Pyrak-Nolte, E. A. Atekwana, D. D. Werkema Jr., and M. E. Haugen, 2009, Geophys. Res. Lett.
The effect of fabric-controlled layering on compressional and shear wave propagation in carbonate rock
Weiwei Li, Christopher Petrovitch, Laura J.Pyrak-Nolte 2009, Internation Journal of the JCRM, Japanese Committee for Rock Mechanics, Special Issue on Geophysics, volume: 4 issue: (2) , pages: 79-85, doi:10.1029/2009GL039569
Acoustic and electrical property changes due to microbial growth and biofilm formation in porous media
Davis, C. A., L. J. Pyrak-Nolte, E. A. Atekwana, D. D. Werkema Jr., and M. E. Haugen 2010, Journal of Geophyysical Research, pages: 115, doi:10.1029/2009JG001143
R. Knight, L. J. Pyrak‐Nolte, L. Slater, E. Atekwana, A. Endres, J. Geller, D. Lesmes, S. Nakagawa, A. Revil, M. M. Sharma and C. Straley, Reviews of Geophysics, 48, RG4002, 30 pages
Interface waves along fractures in anisotropic media
Shao, S. and L. J. Pyrak-Nolte, 2012, Geophysics, vol 78, no 4, (July - August 2013), T99-T112, DOI 10.1190/GEO2012-0464.1
The effect of surface roughness and mixed-mode loading on the stiffness ratio kx/kz for fractures
Choi, M.-K., Bobet, A. and L. J. Pyrak-Nolte, 2013, Geophysics, vol 78, no 4, (July - August 2013), T99-T112, DOI 10.1190/GEO2012-0464.1
Measurements of elastic constants in anisotropic media
Abell, B.C., Shao, S. and L. J. Pyrak-Nolte, 2013, Geophysics, vol 79, no 5, (September - October 2014), D349-D362, DOI 10.1190/GEO2013-0023.1
Coupled wedge waves
Abell, B.C. and L. J. Pyrak-Nolte, 2013, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol 134, no 5, (November 2013), 3551-3560
Multi-modal monitoring of slip along frictional discontinuities
Hedayat, A., Pyrak-Nolte, L.J. and A. Bobet, 2014, Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering, DOI 10.1007/s00603-014-0588-7
Precursors to shear failure of rock discontinuities
Hedayat, A., Pyrak-Nolte, L.J. and A. Bobet, 2014, Geophysical Research Letters, 41, DOI 10.1002/2014GL060848
Wave guiding in fractured layered media
Shao, S., Petrovitch, C.L. and L. J. Pyrak-Nolte, 2015, from Fundamental Controls on Fluid Flow in Carbonates: Current Workflows to Emerging Technologies, editors S.M. Agar & S. Geiger, Geological Soceity, London, Special Publication, 406, 375-400, First published online June 2, 2014, http://dx.doi.org/10.1144/SP406.8
A discontinuous Galerkin method with a modified penalty flux for the propagation and scattering of acousto-elastic waves
Ye, R., de Hoop, M.V., Petrovitch, C. L, Pyrak-Nolte, L.J. and L. C. Wilcox, 2016,
Wave propagation in isotropic media with two orthogonal fracture sets
Shao, S. and L. J. Pyrak-Nolte, 2016, Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering, DOI 10.1007/s00603-016-1084-z, 16 pages.
Elastic Wave Propagation in Fractured Anisotropic Media (reprints available upon request)
Pyrak-Nolte, L. J., Abell, B.C. and S. Shao, 2016, CRC/Balkema “Rock Mechanics and Engineering Volume 1: Principles”, ed. X.-T. Feng.
Active seismic monitoring of crack initiation, propgation and coalescence in rock
Modiriasari, A., Bobet, A. and L. J. Pyrak-Nolte, 2017, Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering, doi:10.1007/s00603-017-1235-x
Intersection Waves
Abell, B. and L. J. Pyrak-Nolte, 2017, Journal of Geophysical Research - Solid Earth, v 122 (10), October 2017, 7824-783
Emergent wave conversion as a precursor to shear crack initiation
Modiriasari, A., Pyrak-Nolte, L. J. and A. Bobet, Geophysical Research Letters, 04 September 2018, vol 45, p 9516-9522, https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL078622
Seismic wave conversion caused by shear crack initiation and growth
Modiriasari, A., Pyrak-Nolte, L. J. and A. Bobet, Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00603-020-02079-2, 2020
Probing complex geophysical geometries with chattering dust
Pyrak-Nolte, L.J., Braverman, W., Nolte, N.J., Wright, A. and D. D. Nolte, Nat Communications 11, 5282 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19087-z
Learning Earthquake Forecasting: A Web-Based Competition
Johnson, P.A., Rouet-Luc, B., Pyrak-Nolte, L.J., Beroza, G., Marone, C., Hulbert, C., Howard, A., Singer, P., Gordeev, D., Karaflos, D., Levinson, C.J., Pfeiffer, P., Puk, K.M. and W. Reade, Proceedings of the National Academy, Published Jan 25, 2021, vol 118, no. 5, e2011362118, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2011362118
Monitoring Fracture Saturation with Internal Seismic Sources and Twin Neural Networks
Nolte, D.D. and L. J. Pyrak-Nolte, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 127, e2021JB023005. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JB023005, (2022). (Supplemental Information)
Related Data Set Publication: Data for Monitoring Fracture Saturation with Internal Transportable Seismic Sources and Twin Neural Networks." (doi: 10.4231/DXGB-KW29).
Characterization of Acoustic Emissions from Analogue Rocks using Sparse Regression-DMDc
Fieseler, C., Mitchell, C. A., Pyrak-Nolte, L. J. and J. N. Kutz, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 127, e2022JB024144. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JB024144, (2022).