An efficient mechanism to avert frictional melts during seismic ruptures

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 296, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 144-152

  Bizzarri, Andrea ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Computational seismology; Constitutive equation; Earthquake dynamics; Frictional heat; Melting

Indexed keywords

BREAKDOWN STRESS; COHESIVE ZONES; COMPUTATIONAL SEISMOLOGY; CRUSTAL EARTHQUAKES; EARTHQUAKE DYNAMICS; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT FRICTION; FRICTIONAL HEAT; FRICTIONAL HEATING; GOVERNING EQUATIONS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LENGTH SCALE; LOW FRICTION; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; PLANAR FAULT; SLIP-DEPENDENT FRICTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL EVOLUTION; SPECIFIC VALUES; STRESS RELEASE; SUFFICIENT CONDITIONS; TIME EVOLUTIONS;

CONSTITUTIVE EQUATIONS; EARTHQUAKES; MELTING; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; TRIBOLOGY;

FRICTION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSTITUTIVE EQUATION; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT PROPAGATION; FORMATION MECHANISM; FRICTION; HEATING; MELTING; NONLINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEISMOLOGY; SLIP RATE;

EID: 77953873587     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2010.05.012     Document Type: Article

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