Aims

• To improve the accuracy of P & S wave acoustic measurements in the Rock Physics and Petrophysics laboratories
• To Build non-contact, optic-fibre based, monitoring techniques into the true-triaxial 'Smart Cell'
  

Experimental Set-Up

• current rock-physics velocity measurements
• alternative strategy

• direct wave fields
• reflected wave fields

• summary of benefits
• proposed future work

laser acoustic acquisition

'Smart Cell' - viewed in Rock Mechanics Group web pages.