Micromechanics of asperity rupture during laboratory stick slip experiments

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  McLaskey, Gregory C ^a   Glaser, Steven D ^a  

^a Berkeley   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS; SENSOR ARRAYS; SLIP FORMING;

BRITTLE FAILURES; DISCRETE EVENTS; FAILURE BEHAVIORS; FAULT GOUGE; FOCAL MECHANISM; HIGH RESOLUTION; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LOCALIZED EVENTS; LOW-FREQUENCY EARTHQUAKES; MATERIAL PROPERTY; MELTING TEMPERATURES; PLASTIC INTERFACES; SHEAR FORCE; STICK SLIP; STRONG LINK; TWO-MATERIALS; WIDE-BAND;

EARTHQUAKES;

ACOUSTIC EMISSION; ASPERITY; BRITTLE FAILURE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT GOUGE; FRICTION; HARDNESS; LABORATORY METHOD; MELTING; MICROMECHANICS; MICROTREMOR; PLASTIC; SENSOR; STICK-SLIP;

EID: 79959704435     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL047507     Document Type: Article

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