Ultrasonic velocity measurement, a non-destructive and easy method to apply in both field and laboratory conditions, has increasingly been conducted to determine the physical properties of rock materials. This paper presents an experimental study of the measurement of P-wave velocity, thermal conductivity and porosity of several types of sedimentary, metamorphic, and magmatic rocks. The aim of this study is to predict the rocks properties including their thermal conductivity and porosity using P-wave velocity. For this purpose, the physical properties are determined in the laboratory to obtain correlations between P-wave velocity and physical properties. Consequently, good linear relationships are found between all the determined physical properties and the P-wave velocity measurements.

Petrophysical proprieties such as porosity, density, permeability and saturation have a marked impact on acoustic proprieties of rocks. Hence, there has been recently a strong incentive to use new geophysical techniques to invert such properties from seismic or sonic measurements for rocks characterization. The P-wave velocity, which is non-destructive and easy method to apply in both field and laboratory conditions, has increasingly been conducted to determine the geotechnical properties of rock materials. The P-wave velocity of a rock is closely related to the intact rock properties, and we have been measuring the velocity in rock masses and describe the rock structure and texture. The present work deals with the use of a simple and non-destructive technique, ultrasonic velocity, to predict the porosity and density of calcarenite rocks that are characteristic in historical monument. The ultrasonic test is based on measuring the propagation time of a P-wave in the longitudinal direction. Good correlations between P-wave velocity, porosity and density were found, which indicated them as an appropriate technique for estimating the porosity and density.

Abstract. In the present study, the petrophysical properties of five different rocks have been measured and analyzed. This is the thermal conductivity, P-wave velocity and porosity. The methodology to estimate the thermal conductivity is to impose heat flux unidirectional on a sample and measure the temperature difference across the sample. The ultrasonic testing is based on the measurement of propagation time of a P-wave in the longitudinal direction. The porosity is measured by the mercury porosimetry technique, based on the measurement of the volume of mercury intruded into the rock under different pressures (mercury intrusion). The results have been shown a direct effect of porosity on thermal conductivity and P-wave velocity. We have found good relationship between the petrophysical properties such as P-wave velocities versus porosity and P-wave velocities versus thermal conductivity coefficient .The experimental results have been then compared with theoretical models available in the literature. These results, consistent with theory, show the possibility of estimating the thermal conductivity from the P-wave velocity and the use of non-destructive methods.Résumé. Dans ce travail, des propriétés pétrophysiques de cinq roches différentes ont été mesurées et analysées. Il s'agit de la conductivité thermique, la vitesse de propagation d'onde P et la porosité. En ce qui concerne la conductivité thermique, on impose à un échantillon un flux de chaleur unidirectionnel et on mesure la différence de température aux bornes de l'échantillon. Le test ultrasonique est basé sur la mesure du temps de propagation d'une onde P dans le sens longitudinal. La porosité est mesurée par la technique de porosimétrie au mercure, basée sur la mesure de la quantité de mercure insérée dans les pores d'une roche sous différentes pressions (intrusion de mercure). Les résultats obtenus montrent un effet direct de la porosité sur La

We show how the techniques of Digital Image Analysis can be efficiently used to help in the interpretation of seismic cross-sections. The problem of automatically finding homogeneous

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