Rupture nucleation on an interface with a power-law relation between stress and displacement discontinuity

International Journal of Fracture

Volumn 163, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 1-13

  Rice, James R ^a   Uenishi, Koji ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cohesive zone model; Fault rupture nucleation; Fracture nucleation; Interface failure; Nonlinear displacement weakening; Nonlinear slip weakening; Nucleation zone size

Indexed keywords

COHESIVE ZONE MODEL; FAULT RUPTURE NUCLEATION; FAULT RUPTURES; INTERFACE FAILURE; NONLINEAR DISPLACEMENT; NUCLEATION ZONE;

FRACTURE; LOADING; NUCLEATION; NUMBER THEORY; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; STABILITY; STRESS CONCENTRATION; TENSILE STRENGTH;

STRESS ANALYSIS;

EID: 77950040524     PISSN: 03769429     EISSN: 15732673     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10704-010-9478-5     Document Type: Article

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