Mechanical and Acoustic Data from Rocky Icy Moon Interior Simulations

Supporting data for the paper 'Mechanical properties of the rocky interiors of icy moons'. The dataset contains mechanical, elastic, and acoustic emission data from laboratory deformation tests on chondrite material. It was authored by Cassandra Seltzer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Use Cases

• Modeling elastic wave speeds in planetary interiors based on wavespeed data from pressurization and depressurization cycles.
• Analyzing acoustic emission power released during rock deformation based on the AEdata_7tests file.
• Calibrating mechanical constitutive models using the pstress and pstrain fields contained in the pdata.
• Picking seismic arrival times for waveform analysis using the arrtime_afterpulse data.

Strengths

• Data is structured for specific analyses: mechanical characteristics, elastic wavespeeds, and acoustic emissions.
• Contains stacked and smoothed waveform data (R_stack) for signal processing.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Collection Method

Laboratory mechanical testing and acoustic emission monitoring on chondrite material.