DENSITY AND VELOCITY BASED ASSESSMENT METHOD AND APPARATUS

摘要

A method and associated apparatus are provided for determining selected elastic characteristics of a body of material, e.g. a body of earthen materials at a particular site of interest and visually expressing those characteristics; the method and apparatus for processing the method follows the steps of: (a) establishing the location of the body; (b) obtaining the density value p of the material at or near the body's location; (c) obtaining a P- wave velocity V_p at or near the body's location; (d) obtaining a S- wave velocity value V_s at or near the body's location; (e) determining a Young's Modulus E using the formula E = ? V_p