Elastic moduli evolution and accompanying stress changes with increasing crack damage: Implications for stress changes around fault zones and volcanoes during deformation

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 183, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 225-236

  Heap, M J ^a   Faulkner, D R ^b   Meredith, P G ^a   Vinciguerra, S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Acoustic properties; Dynamics and mechanics of faulting; Earthquake dynamics; Fracture and flow; Volcanic hazards and risks; Volcano seismology

Indexed keywords

CRACK DAMAGE; CRACK FREE; CYCLIC STRESSING; DAMAGE ZONES; DIFFERENTIAL STRESS; EARTHQUAKE DYNAMICS; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; ELASTIC MODELS; EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; FAULT ZONE; LOADING CYCLES; MEAN STRESS; NON-LINEAR; POISSON'S RATIO; PRINCIPAL STRESS; ROCK TYPES; STRESS CHANGES; STRESS FIELD; VOLCANIC EDIFICE; VOLCANIC HAZARDS; VOLCANO SEISMOLOGY; YOUNG'S MODULUS;

ACOUSTIC PROPERTIES; BASALT; CRACKS; DEFORMATION; DYNAMICS; EARTHQUAKES; FRACTURE; HAZARDS; LITHOLOGY; POISSON RATIO; ROCKS; STRESSES; UNLOADING; VOLCANOES;

ELASTIC MODULI;

ACOUSTIC PROPERTY; CRACK; DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; ELASTIC MODULUS; FAULT ZONE; FAULTING; LOADING TEST; POISSON RATIO; SEISMOLOGY; UNIAXIAL TEST; VOLCANOLOGY;

EID: 78349272108     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04726.x     Document Type: Article

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