Design for Vibrator Field Experiment Based-on Vibrator-earth System

Source-generated energy in seismic vibrator records high frequency harmonic behavior. Conventional vibrator-earth coupling model was set up on the linear system. Some assumptions in the application of linear theory to the vibrator problem play an insignificant role in the overall coupling structure. Obviously, non-linear behaviors can be modeled using a “hard-spring” form of the Duffing equation. Model dedicates that a qualitatively similar harmonic component is present for a broad range of possible mathematical descriptions. After some qualitative analysis about the non-linear system, some conclusion can be drawn. Firstly, The design of the vibrator weight should be abided by two points as followed: In order to avoid decoupling for the vibrator to the earth, the weight should be greater than the peak of the driving force amplitude as to keep the resultant force pointing to the earth’s core. On the other hand, for the limited energy output, the vibrator overweight may damage the system high-frequency ability.Secondly, as the driving force frequency approaching to the ground hard-spring inherent frequency, the energy transmission was found to climb its peak from the system energy absorbed curve. At last, due to the non-linear coupling model system, its load curve would come into unstable frequency range, which might limit the application of the Vibroseis conventional sweeping pattern-linear sweep. A new sweeping pattern was listed: the driving signal was the pseudo-random sequence modulated by a fixed frequency cosine signal satisfying with the exploration precision and absorbing efficiency. The synthesized signal was ready to be realized by the electromagnetic driven system. Even the side-lobes noise of its auto-correlation function was restrained well. The theory coming from the Vibrator-earth coupling model was applied to the design of the Portable High-frequency Vibrator System (PHVS), and the good result was obtained. By the analysis of the vibrator base plate signal, the model was proved to be true. The exploration research on PHVS made a first step on its following optimal design.