True triaxial strength and deformability of the siltstone overlying the Chelungpu fault (Chi-Chi earthquake), Taiwan

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 9, 2007, Pages

  Oku, Haruyuki ^a   Haimson, Bezalel ^a   Song, Sheng Rong ^b  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOPHYSICS; MICROCRACKS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SHEAR DEFORMATION; STRESSES;

FAULT; SHEAR FRACTURE; SILTSTONE;

TECTONICS;

CHI-CHI EARTHQUAKE 1999; DEFORMATION; ELASTIC MODULUS; MICROCRACK; SHEAR STRENGTH; SILTSTONE; STRENGTH; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TRIAXIAL TEST;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; TAIWAN;

EID: 34347262043     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL029601     Document Type: Article

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