Effect of Fracture Aperture on P-Wave Attenuation: A Seismic Physical Modelling Study

Table 1

Parameters of the fracture models. The dimensions are scaled up to 1 : 10000. Dimensions shown are not converted to real scaling.

Model number/block	B1	B2	B3	B4	B5	B6
Number of layers	30	30	30	30	30	30
Number of chips per layer	360	360	360	360	360	360
Total number of chips in model	10800	10800	10800	10800	10800	10800
Chip thickness (mm)	0.10	0.15	0.20	0.25	0.30	0.35
Layer thickness (mm)	1.59	1.63	1.63	1.61	1.63	1.58
Radius of each chip (mm)	1.5	1.5	1.5	1.5	1.5	1.5
Volume of base material	458640	458640	458640	458640	458640	458640
Fracture density (%)	7.95	7.95	7.95	7.95	7.95	7.95