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82) In an electrical resistivity imaging survey, Axial Dipole-dipole array is placed over an in-homogeneous structure. The centers of current and potential dipoles are separated by a distance of 100 m. The length of each dipole is 10 m. If 5 Amp current flows through the subsurface and 50 mV potential difference is measured across the potential dipole then apparent resistivity will be ______ohm-meters. (Round off to the nearest integer) (Use pi =3.14)

(Thanks to Chandra Sekhar, ANU)


Solution:



In Axial Dipole- dipole array the apparent resistivity is 

\rho_{a}=\pi \frac{V}{I} \frac{R(R^{2}-a^{2})}{a^2}---(1)

To simplify above formula, 
 
\rho_{a}=(\frac{\triangle V}{I})(\frac{R^{3}}{a^{2}}-R)\pi

Given that R = 100m

a = 10m

I = 5 Amp

V = 50 mV= 0.05 V

By substituting the above formulas in the equation 1 we get 
 
\rho_{a}=(\frac{\triangle V}{I})(\frac{R^{3}}{a^{2}}-R)\pi 
 
\rho_{a}=(\frac{0.05}{5})(\frac{100^{3}}{10^{2}}-100)(3.14)

\rho_{a}=(0.01)(\frac{1000000}{100}-100)(3.14)

\rho_{a}=(0.01)(10000-100)(3.14)

\rho_{a}=(0.01)(9900)(3.14)

\rho_{a}=310.86 ohm-meter.

Therefore the apparent resistivity \rho_{a}=310.86 ohm-meter.


Reference: http://fsc.scuegypt.edu.eg/attach/2/ELECTRICAL%20GEOPHYSICS.pdf

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