The importance of the third dimension in granular shear

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 13, 2003, Pages

  Hazzard, James F ^a   Mair, Karen ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FRICTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TRIBOLOGY;

GRANULAR SHEAR; 3-D NUMERICAL MODELS; FRICTIONAL SLIDING; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; PARTICLE MOTIONS; SECOND-ORDER RATES; SMALL AMPLITUDE; SPHERICAL BEADS;

GEOPHYSICS; FRICTION;

EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; GRANULAR MEDIUM; ROCK MECHANICS; SEISMOLOGY; SHEAR; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 0141514682     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL017534     Document Type: Article

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