A supershear transition mechanism for cracks

Science

Volumn 299, Issue 5612, 2003, Pages 1557-1559

  Dunham, Eric M ^a   Favreau, Pascal ^b   Carlson, J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRACKS; SHEAR WAVES; STRESS ANALYSIS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

SUPERSHEAR MECHANISMS;

SEISMOLOGY;

CRACK; FAULT; GROUND MOTION; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SHEAR; STRESS;

ARTICLE; ENERGY; GEOLOGY; GEOMORPHOLOGY; MOTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEAR STRESS; STRESS; STRESS STRAIN RELATIONSHIP; VELOCITY;

EID: 0037423842     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1080650     Document Type: Article

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29. E.D. acknowledges the support of an Office of Navat Research-Nationat Defense Science and Engineering Graduate fellowship. This work was supported by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, NSF (grant DMR-9813752); and a grant from the Keck Foundation, which established an Interdisciplinary Program in Seismology and Materials Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara.