Insights into the faulting process from numerical simulations of rock-layer bending

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 289, Issue , 2007, Pages 161-186

  Couples, Gary D ^a,b   Lewis, H ^a,b   Olden, P ^a,b   Workman, G H ^c   Higgs, N G ^d  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Edinburgh Research Partnership in Engineering and Mathematics   (United Kingdom)

^c Applied Mechanics Inc   (United States)

^d Higgs Palmer Technologies LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRITTLE DEFORMATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DUCTILE DEFORMATION; ELASTOPLASTICITY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FAULTING; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LABORATORY METHOD; STRESS-STRAIN RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 38549172018     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/SP289.10     Document Type: Conference Paper

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