Effects of gouge fragment shape on fault friction: New 3D modelling results

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 23, 2009, Pages

  Abe, Steffen ^a   Mair, Karen ^b  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3D MODELLING; ACCUMULATED STRAIN; AGGREGATE GRAINS; BREAK-UP; CLUSTER SIMULATIONS; DISCRETE ELEMENT SIMULATION; EARTHQUAKE POTENTIAL; FAULT FRICTION; FAULT GOUGE; FRICTIONAL STRENGTH; INDIVIDUAL PARTICLES; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR; NUMERICAL MODELLING; NUMERICAL MODELS; PARTICLE CLUSTERS; PARTICLE-BASED SIMULATION; SIZE AND SHAPE;

AGGLOMERATION; FRICTION; SIMULATORS; TRIBOLOGY;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

AGGREGATE SIZE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISCRETE ELEMENT METHOD; FAULT GOUGE; GRANULAR MEDIUM; NUMERICAL MODEL; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 72049098514     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL040684     Document Type: Article

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