Modelling of porphyroclasts in simple shear and the role of stress variations at grain boundaries

Journal of Structural Geology

Volumn 31, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1350-1364

  Wilson, Christopher J L ^a   Evans, Lynn ^a   Delle Piane, Claudio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Micro mechanisms; Microstructure; Simple shear; Two phase composites

Indexed keywords

2-D MODEL; DIFFUSION PROCESS; FINITE ROTATIONS; GRAIN MATRIX; GRAIN MODELS; GRAIN STRUCTURES; HARD GRAINS; HIGH SHEAR; INTRAGRANULAR STRESS; MATRIX; MATRIX GRAINS; MAXIMUM PRINCIPAL STRESS; MEAN STRESS; METAMORPHIC REACTIONS; MICRO-MECHANISMS; MICROSTRUCTURAL OBSERVATIONS; NON-LINEAR; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; PRINCIPAL STRESS; RELATIVE VISCOSITY; SIMPLE SHEAR; STRAIN COMPATIBILITY; STRESS DISTRIBUTION; STRESS VARIATIONS; TWO-PHASE COMPOSITES; VISCOSITY CONTRAST;

FLOW PATTERNS; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; MICA; MICROSTRUCTURE; PHASE COMPOSITION; PHASE INTERFACES; SHEAR STRAIN; STRESS CONCENTRATION; VISCOSITY;

MATRIX ALGEBRA;

DEFORMATION; GRAIN BOUNDARY; MICROSTRUCTURE; RHEOLOGY; SHEAR STRAIN; STRESS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; VISCOSITY;

EID: 70350726219     PISSN: 01918141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsg.2009.08.001     Document Type: Article

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