Influence of rock joints on longitudinal wave velocity using experimental and numerical techniques

Waves propagating through rocks when intersected with joints gets transmitted or reflected. Joints or discontinuities in a rock affect the amplitude and velocity of the transmitted and reflected waves propagating through it. The changes occurring on a transmitted wave is following the properties of the incident wave namely frequency, amplitude, wavelength and the rockmass properties namely joint angle, joint roughness, joint stiffness, number of...