Analysis of slip-weakening frictional laws with static restrengthening and their implications on the scaling, asymmetry, and mode of dynamic rupture on homogeneous and bimaterial interfaces

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 113, Issue 8, 2008, Pages

  Olsen Kettle, L M ^a   Weatherley, D ^a   Saez, E ^a   Gross, L ^a   Muhlhaus H B ^a   Xing, H L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSTITUTIVE EQUATION; DYNAMIC PROPERTY; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; SIMULATION; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 55949101458     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007JB005454     Document Type: Article

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