Phase speed in water-saturated sand and glass beads at MHz frequencies.

J Acoust Soc Am

Department of Oceanography, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, B3H 4R2, Canada.

Published: October 2020

Measurements of the phase velocity of compressional sound waves in water-saturated granular materials are reported for the 1.0-2.0 MHz frequency range. The sound speed estimates are based on travel times through granular layer thicknesses ranging from 8 to 17 mm. Three types of granular media were used: 336 μm median diameter glass beads and two natural sands with median diameters of 219 and 406 μm. These grain sizes and frequency range correspond to 0.5 0.5. Scaling the data by a factor depending on porosity and grain density reduces the spread among the available phase speed estimates by nearly a factor of 2, from 12.5% to 6.9%.

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