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Fracture parameters and effectiveness evaluation are two of the key tasks for the evaluation of these types of reservoirs. Array acoustic logging can be used for fracture evaluation to compensate for the deficiencies of the image logging fracture evaluation method. Therefore, to develop acoustic logging evaluation methods as well as nondestructive testing methods for fractures, experiments were conducted to study the shear wave transmission in fractured media. Experiment data demonstrate a good correlation between the shear wave attenuation coefficient and fracture width, and the shear wave attenuation coefficients rise logarithmically with the increase in the fracture width for all models with different porosities and distinct dip angles of fractures. The shear wave attenuation coefficient changes relatively faster with the fracture width when the fracture width is within 250 \u03bcm. In addition, the shear wave attenuation is affected by the core porosity and fracture dip angle. When the fracture width is constant, the shear wave attenuation caused by the 0\u00b0 fracture is relatively larger and is obviously greater than that of the fractures at other angles, which is consistent with the existing experimental results. The results of this study can be used to guide further research on amplitude compensation methods for sonic signal transmission in fractured media and fracture evaluation methods.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s22114047","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,5,31]],"date-time":"2022-05-31T02:30:06Z","timestamp":1653964206000},"page":"4047","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":10,"title":["Experimental Study on Shear Wave Transmission in Fractured Media"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"22","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8812-0079","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ming","family":"Cai","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Exploration Technologies for Oil and Gas Resources, Ministry of Education, Yangtze University, Wuhan 430100, China"},{"name":"College of Geophysics and Petroleum Resources, Yangtze University, Wuhan 430100, China"}]},{"given":"Hongliang","family":"Wu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"PetroChina Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration &Development, Beijing 100083, China"}]},{"given":"Yi","family":"Xin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Exploration and Development Research Institute of Tarim Oilfield Company, PetroChina, Korla 841000, China"}]},{"given":"Peng","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"PetroChina Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration &Development, Beijing 100083, China"}]},{"given":"Chengguang","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Exploration Technologies for Oil and Gas Resources, Ministry of Education, Yangtze University, Wuhan 430100, China"},{"name":"College of Geophysics and Petroleum Resources, Yangtze University, Wuhan 430100, China"}]},{"given":"Jun","family":"Tang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Exploration Technologies for Oil and Gas Resources, Ministry of Education, Yangtze University, Wuhan 430100, China"},{"name":"College of Geophysics and Petroleum Resources, Yangtze University, Wuhan 430100, China"}]},{"given":"Minjie","family":"Lin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"PetroChina Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration &Development, Beijing 100083, China"}]},{"given":"Lihong","family":"Tan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Exploration Technologies for Oil and Gas Resources, Ministry of Education, Yangtze University, Wuhan 430100, China"},{"name":"College of Geophysics and Petroleum Resources, Yangtze University, Wuhan 430100, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,5,26]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"Ansari, R., Mekic, N., Chace, D., and Rust, M. 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