Can flash heating of asperity contacts prevent melting?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2009, Pages

  Bizzarri, A ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPERITY CONTACTS; CONSTITUTIVE PARAMETERS; DYNAMIC PROBLEM; FLASH HEATING; KEY PARAMETERS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; ON DYNAMICS; PULSE-LIKE; STATE-DEPENDENT; STRESS DROP; SUPERSHEAR RUPTURE; TEMPERATURE EVOLUTION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION LANGUAGES;

HEATING;

ASPERITY; CRACK; ELASTODYNAMICS; FAULT PROPAGATION; HEATING; HOMOGENEITY; MELTING; NUMERICAL MODEL; SHEAR ZONE; SLIP;

EID: 68849132777     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL037335     Document Type: Article

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