Avalanches in anisotropic sheared granular media

Granular Matter

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 243-252

  Peña, Andrés A ^a,b   McNamara, Sean ^a,c   Lind, Pedro G ^a,d   Herrmann, Hans J ^e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b Structural Design Geotechnics   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^e FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

^f ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Earthquake fault; Granular packing; Particle shape anisotropy; Shear cell

Indexed keywords

AFTERSHOCK SEQUENCE; ANISOTROPIC PARTICLES; EARTHQUAKE FAULT; FRICTIONAL STRENGTH; GRANULAR MEDIA; GRANULAR PACKING; GUTENBERG-RICHTER LAW; MOLECULAR DYNAMIC SIMULATIONS; OMORI'S LAW; PARTICLE SHAPE; PARTICLE SHAPE ANISOTROPY; POLYGONAL PARTICLES; PROBABILITY OF OCCURRENCE; RELATIVE MOVEMENT; SHEAR CELL; SHEAR ZONE; TECTONIC PLATES;

ANISOTROPY; CELL MEMBRANES; EARTHQUAKES; GRANULAR MATERIALS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER);

EID: 67650251657     PISSN: 14345021     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10035-009-0136-4     Document Type: Article

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