A formation logging tool having a substantially continuous central mandrel
with regularly spaced mass blocks disposed thereon, at least some of the
mass blocks carrying sensors such as receivers. By adopting this
structure, the tool can be made to behave as a mass-spring structure and
its flexural and extensional behaviour controlled such that its
dispersion curve does not extend into the dispersion curve of the
formation to be logged. The structure can be applied to the whole of the
logging tool or just to the receiver section and/or any spacer section
between the receiver and the transmitter section.