Open AccessMonitoring in situ stress changes in a mining environment with coda wave interferometry
Author(s) -
Grêt Alexandre,
Snieder Roel,
Özbay Uḡur
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
geophysical journal international
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.302
H-Index - 168
eISSN - 1365-246X
pISSN - 0956-540X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-246x.2006.03097.x
Subject(s) - coda , interferometry , geology , seismology , seismic interferometry , microseism , stress (linguistics) , hammer , pillar , seismic wave , optics , engineering , structural engineering , physics , linguistics , philosophy
SUMMARY Coda waves are highly sensitive to changes in the subsurface; we use this sensitivity to monitor small stress changes in an underground mine. We apply coda wave interferometry to seismic data excited by a hammer source, collected at an experimental hard rock mine in Idaho Springs, CO. We carried out a controlled stress‐change experiment in a mine pillar and we show how coda wave interferometry can be used to monitor the in situ stress change with modest hardware requirements.