Effect of sliding rate on the activity of acoustic emission during stable sliding

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 160, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1163-1189

  Yabe, Yasuo ^a   Kato, Naoyuki ^a,b   Yamamoto, Kiyohiko ^a   Hirasawa, Tomowo ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

AE activity; Friction; Micro fracture; Rate dependence; Stable sliding

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC EMISSION; FRACTURE INITIATION; FRICTION; PLATE BOUNDARY; SLIDING;

EID: 0037954329     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s000240300000     Document Type: Article

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