Strong seismic shaking of randomly prestressed brittle rocks, rock damage, and nonlinear attenuation

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Sleep, Norman H ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

fault rupture; friction; hillslope; nonlinear attenuation; strong motions

Indexed keywords

CRACKS; FRICTION; RESIDUAL STRESSES; ROCKS; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; SHEAR FLOW; TRIBOLOGY;

ACTIVE AREA; BRITTLE ROCKS; BULK ROCKS; COULOMB FAILURE; COULOMB STRESS; CRACK NETWORKS; DAMAGE ZONES; DOWNSLOPE; DYNAMIC ACCELERATION; DYNAMIC STRESS; ELASTIC LIMIT; FAULT RUPTURES; FRACTAL DISTRIBUTION; FRACTURE PLANE; FREQUENT EPISODES; HILLSLOPE; HILLSLOPES; INTACT SANDSTONE; LOCAL FAILURE; NONLINEAR ATTENUATION; OSCILLATING DYNAMICS; PRE-STRESS; PRE-STRESSED; PRESTRESSES; QUARTER-WAVELENGTH; RATE AND STATE FRICTION; ROCK DAMAGE; RUPTURE ZONE; SCALING RELATIONSHIPS; SEISMIC SHAKING; SHALLOW DEPTHS; SHALLOW SUBSURFACE; STRONG MOTION;

FRACTURE;

BRITTLE FAILURE; COULOMB CRITERION; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAILURE ANALYSIS; FAULT GEOMETRY; HILLSLOPE; REGOLITH; ROCK MECHANICS; S-WAVE; SEISMICITY; STRESS FIELD; STRONG MOTION; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 77958124231     PISSN: 15252027     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GC003229     Document Type: Article

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