Seabed Properties from Acoustic Reflection Measurement: An experiment in the Mediterranean

Friday, January 25, 2013 4:00 p.m. in ETC 4.150 Nicholas P. Chotiros and Marcia J. Isakson Applied Research Laboratories The University of Texas at Austin http://www.arlut.utexas.edu/ The seabed is often modeled as a fluid, visco-elastic solid, or water-saturated poro-elastic material. Using experimental measurements from a sandy seabed, it is shown that the poro-elastic model can…