Wrinkle-like Weertman pulse at the interface between two blocks of foam rubber with different velocities

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 13, 1999, Pages 2025-2028

  Anooshehpoor, Abdolrasool ^a   Brune, James N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POTENTIAL ENERGY; RUBBER; SHEAR WAVES; VELOCITY; WAVE PROPAGATION; CALCULATIONS; DAMPING;

NUMERICAL CALCULATION; PARTICLE DISPLACEMENT; PARTICLE MOTIONS; PRE-STRESSED; RADIATION DAMPING; RUPTURE VELOCITIES; SHEAR WAVE VELOCITY; VELOCITY PULSE;

SHEAR FLOW; FOAMED RUBBER;

PARTICLE DISPLACEMENT; WRINKLE LIKE WEERTMAN PULSE;

FAULT SLIP; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SEISMIC WAVE;

EID: 0032728737     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900397     Document Type: Article

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