S44B:
Geophysics for National Security Needs III

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
Chairs:  Jessie Lafayette Bonner, Weston Geophysical, Lufkin, TX, United States and Robert J Mellors, LLNL L-046, Livermore, CA, United States
Primary Conveners:  Catherine Mary Snelson, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Co-conveners:  Jessie Lafayette Bonner, Weston Geophysical, Lufkin, TX, United States and Robert J Mellors, LLNL L-046, Livermore, CA, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Catherine Mary Snelson, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

4:00 PM
 
Welcoming Remarks
4:05 PM
S44B-01
 
Numerical modeling of explosions for nuclear monitoring
Jeffry L Stevens, Leidos, San Diego, CA, United States
4:25 PM
S44B-02
 
A Micromechanical Damage Mechanics Model for the Seismic Coupling of Underground Nuclear Explosions
Marshall A Rogers-Martinez1, Charles G Sammis1, Jon M Mihaly2 and Harsha S Bhat3, (1)University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France
4:40 PM
S44B-03
 
Numerical Simulations of Underground Explosions: Effect of Joints Near the Source on Energy Coupling, Shear Motions and Gas Flow
Tarabay Antoun1, Souheil M Ezzedine2, Oleg Vorobiev1 and Lewis Alan Glenn3, (1)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States, (2)Univ California LLNL, Livermore, CA, United States, (3)LLNL, Danville, CA, United States
4:55 PM
S44B-04
 
Seismic Methods of Identifying Explosions and Estimating Their Yield
William R Walter, Sean Ricardo Ford, Michael Pasyanos, Moira L. Pyle, Stephen C Myers, Robert J Mellors, Arben Pitarka, Arthur J Rodgers and Teresa F Hauk, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States
5:15 PM
S44B-05
 
Source Time Functions of the Dprk Announced Nuclear TESTS of 2006, 2009 and 2013
Anton Ziolkowski, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH9, United Kingdom
5:30 PM
S44B-06
 
Moment Tensor Descriptions for Simulated Explosions of the Source Physics Experiment (SPE)
Esteban Rougier, Earl E Knight, Xiaoning Yang and Howard John Patton, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
5:45 PM
S44B-07
 
The use of waveform cross correlation for creation of an accurate catalogue of mining explosions within the Russian platform using joint capabilities of seismic array Miknevo and IMS arrays
Ivan Kitov1, Mikhail Rozhkov2 and Irina Sanina1, (1)Institute of Geosphere Dynamics RAS, Moscow, Russia, (2)CTBTO Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Organization, Vienna, Austria
 
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