Thermo-poro-mechanical properties of the Aigion fault clayey gouge-application to the analysis of shear heating and fluid pressurization

Soils and Foundations

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 97-108

  Sulem, Jean ^a   Vardoulakis, Ioannis ^b   Ouffroukh, Hichem ^c   Perdikatsis, Vassilis ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS EST   (France)

^b NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS EST   (France)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Clay; Fault; Shear deformation; Shear band analysis; Thermo poro mechanical couplings (IGC: B4 D6)

Indexed keywords

CLAY; FAULTING; FLUIDIZATION; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; PRESSURIZATION; SHEAR DEFORMATION;

ACTIVE SEISMIC; EFFECTIVE STRESS; FLUID PRESSURIZATION; GULF OF CORINTH , GREECE; MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR; MECHANICAL COUPLING; PRINCIPAL STRESS; SLIP SURFACES;

FAULT SLIPS;

EID: 30344486162     PISSN: 00380806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3208/sandf.45.2_97     Document Type: Conference Paper

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