A constitutive scaling law for shear rupture that is inherently scale-dependent, and physical scaling of nucleation time to critical point

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 161, Issue 9-10, 2004, Pages 1915-1929

  Ohnaka, Mitiyasu ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accelerating phase of nucleation; Characteristic length; Inhomogeneous fault; Power law; Universal scaling relation

Indexed keywords

CONSTITUTIVE EQUATION; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FRACTURE MECHANICS;

EID: 4444376994     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00024-004-2539-9     Document Type: Article

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