A constitutive scaling law and a unified comprehension for frictional slip failure, shear fracture of intact rock, and earthquake rupture

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 108, Issue 2, 2003, Pages

  Ohnaka, Mitiyasu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Characteristics length scale; Constitutive scaling law; Inhomogeneous fault surfaces; Physical scaling relation; Unified constitutive formulation

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE; FAILURE MECHANISM; FAULT SLIP; SHEAR;

EID: 0038607607     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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