Source coordinates

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This leads to the adjoint equation satisfied by G in the source coordinates... 

The final data set is a collection of angles of scatter, 9(Sy, Sz, Cy, Cz, Px, Py, Pz, Dy, Dz), where the independent variables refer to the source coordinates (.S ), the primary collimator exit coordinates (C), the object point coordinates (P) and the detector coordinates (D), respectively. 

The Greens function G = G x,Xo) describes the scalar field at a position a as a result of a unit impulsive source at some other position Xo- Hence, G is a function of an observer system x and a source system Xo. If Xo is chosen within the same interval as for x. Equations A-2 and A-3 can be rewritten in terms of the source coordinate system simply by replacing X by Xo- Then multiplying Equation A-2 by G and Equation A-3 by F, subtracting the products, and integrating over the source coordinate, oCo, from Xi to X2 gives ... 

Refers to oxygen, or the source coordinate system (x,Xo) of the Green s function s Refers to droplet surface... 

The simplest way to locate the source of AE is the so-called zone location method. The exact source coordinates are not determined, but the defect is located within a radius of the sensor s sensitivity range (or in the case of a plate-like stmcture, within a zone). 

The planar localization technique is applied to two-dimensional stmctures, where the thickness is small compared to the length extent of the object and source coordinates are only required in two directions. Simple planar localization of cracks in a plate is shown in Fig. 5.8. While only three unknowns (the two source coordinates and the time of origin) have to be determined (see Chapter 6), recordings from only three sensors are sufficient (Fig. 5.8). Since compressional waves are used, the equations applied to calculate the source locations are similar to those of 3D localization techniques (see Chapter 6). 

Upon analyzing the x/y projection in conjunction with a visualization of the standard deviation of the calculated source coordinates (Fig. 5.12), further interesting details can be observed. We would expect that no sources would exist within the steel bar. The events localized inside the dashed line, which represents the perimeter of the bar, must surely originate directly from the surface of the bar. An inspection of the error bars reveals that many of these sources have error limits extending outside the bar, indicating that they probably originated from the surface of the bar. 

Typical input data for a moment tensor inversion consist of the network geometry (coordinates of the sensors) knowledge of sensor polarity (i.e. whether an upwards deflection at the sensor indicates a compression or dilatation) sensor orientation source coordinates P and/or S-wave displacement amplitudes recorded at each sensor (time-domain inversion) or P and/or S-wave spectral amplitudes (frequency-domain inversion) and the polarities of the wave phases. 

Quantitative methods in acoustic emission analysis require localization techniques to extract the source coordinates of the acoustic emission events as accurately as possible. There are many different ways to localize AEs in practice that can be used to obtain the required resolution in one, two, or three dimensions. The most appropriate technique depends on the objective of the experiment, the required solution and on the geometric shape. 

There are also general dilFerences in the type of localization procedure. Different localization techniques will be discussed after the automatic onset detection description, beginning with methods that provide only a rough estimate of the source coordinates, and building up to more complex methods that derive these coordinates with best possible accuracy. 

The easiest way to locate the source of acoustic emissions is the so-called zone location method, where the exact source coordinates are not determined. Here, localization means detecting a signal and the radius (or in plate structures, the zone) of the sensor sensitivity range defines the localization accuracy. However, this is also the most imprecise localization method. The principal of zone localization is simple. For a particular sensor distribution, the sensor that records the arrival of the elastic wave first is the sensor closest to the source. An example for such a case is shown in Fig. 6.4. 

If the experimental results are roughly summarized, it was found that more than 90% of the calculated source coordinates were located within about 8 mm from the true pulse source with respect to x-direction and 22 mm with respect to y-direction (parallel to grain). 

Whereas standard linearized localization methods give a single point solution and uncertainty estimates (Schechinger and Vogel 2005), die result of the nonlinear method is a probability density function (PDF) over the unknown source coordinates. The optimal location is taken as the maximum likelihood point of the PDF. The PDF explicitly accounts for a priori known data errors, which are assumed to be Gaussian. 

The results of the nonlinear localization (confidence volumes and maximum likelihood source coordinates, indicated by gray scales and white stars) are compared to the point source solution (white circles). The 68% error ellipsoid estimated by the standard linearized localization method is plotted. In both cases, a constant propagation velocity was assumed. For the well observed event El no differences between both solutions are evident. The event E2 occurred at the edge of the sensor network and therefore has a greater localization error. There are slight deviations between the error ellipsoid and the shape of Ihe PDF, because the nonlinear relationship between source coordinates and travel times is taken into account. For this reason, the PDF can have a more irregular shape in the case of a 3-D velocity model. 

From these P-wave onsets a first estimation of the source coordinates is made using an iterative least-squares procedure. If the residual error is larger than 0.8 m, the onsets with the largest residues are stepwise eliminated and a new solution is calculated until the residual error drops below the said limit. In order to be able to locate sources outside of the sensor network, we also consider the S-wave onsets. Therefore, we automatically pick the S-wave onsets in the time interval expected due to the result of the location using P-wave onsets only. In the second step of source location, we use the found S-wave onsets together with the remained P-wave onsets. P-wave and S-wave onsets with large residues are again eliminated until... 

In practical applications the real position of the source is not known. Nevertheless, the accuracy of localization can be estimated, when a signal is recorded by more than four sensors, by calculating the error of the source coordinates. These can be described as error ellipses in plane and as error ellipsoids in space, respectively (cf. chapter 6.3.5, Fig. 6.14). The accuracy of localization results can be used for judging the plausibility of mechanical processes (cf. chapter 6.4, Fig. 6.17). 

Accuracy of localization reached in different real scale situations are shown in Table 16.2. It is quantified either by the absolute value of the localization error in cases where the source coordinates are known or by... 

Geiger s insight was that if the initial source coordinates (i.e., the user s initial guess for the starting position for the hypocenter, [xq, yo> o> T°of) are sufficiently close to the true... 

The solution for the double-couple earthquake mechanism is obtained by taking spatial derivatives of Eq. 2 with respect to the source coordinate, where = —jj. Partial derivatives... 

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