Rapid conversion of elastic energy into plastic shear heating during incipient necking of the lithosphere

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 14, 1998, Pages 2737-2740

  Regenauer Lieb, Klaus ^a   Yuen, David A ^b  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ductile deformation; Failure mechanism; Faulting; Lithosphere

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRACK PROPAGATION; DEFORMATION; ENERGY CONVERSION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HEATING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RHEOLOGY; SEISMIC WAVES; VISCOELASTICITY; ELASTOPLASTICITY; ENERGY TRANSFER;

ELASTIC ENERGY; LITHOSPHERE; PLASTIC SHEAR HEATING; ELASTO-PLASTIC RHEOLOGIES; ELASTOPLASTIC DEFORMATION; FINITE ELEMENT CODES; MECHANICAL HEATING; PLASTIC DISSIPATION; STRUCTURAL PERTURBATION; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT; THERMAL-MECHANICAL FEEDBACK;

SEISMOLOGY; ELASTICITY;

DUCTILE DEFORMATION; FAILURE MECHANISM; FAULTING; LITHOSPHERE;

EID: 0032129092     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL02056     Document Type: Article

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