Abstract: Apparatus for shear wave borehole logging has a source section 30, a spacer section 32, a detector section 34 and a coupling section 36, adjacent sections being linked by isolation joints 38. The source section 30 has a slotted steel housing 48 containing a source 42 with two transducers 44a/44b and 44c/44d each arranged to produce acoustic radiation with a dipole radiation pattern. The transducers are oriented so that their radiation patterns are transverse to one another and to the borehole axis. The detector section 34 also has a slotted steel housing 80 and contains six detectors 82 each with two transducers 84a/84b and 84c/84d arranged similarly to the source transducers. The isolation joint 38 between adjacent sections comprises lengths of steel wire 76 secured at each end to one of the sonde sections and bridging a gap between the sections.

Abstract: A housing for an acoustic logging tool apparatus for use in a well bore is disclosed. The logging tool comprises an acoustic transmitter and one or more acoustic receivers located a fixed distance from the transmitter and an elongated tubular housing having a transmitter area, an intermediate area and a receiving area. The tubular housing has a plurality of interruptions or holes in the longitudinal continuity of its wall to delay the acoustic energy passing from the transmitter to the receiver along the housing. The receiving area of the housing further having means for reducing secondary acoustic noise produced by acoustic scattering between the intermediate area and the receiving area.