Breaking Up: Comminution Mechanisms in Sheared Simulated Fault Gouge

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 168, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2277-2288

  Mair, K ^a   Abe, S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Abrasion; Comminution; Fault gouge; Fracture; Fragmentation; Friction

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATED SHEAR STRAIN; ACTIVE FAULT; AGGREGATE GRAINS; BIMODAL DISTRIBUTION; BOUNDARY WALLS; DISCRETE ELEMENTS; DOMINANT MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE POTENTIAL; ELASTIC BONDS; EVOLUTION OF GRAIN; FAULT GOUGE; FINE GRAINS; FRAGMENTATION; FRAGMENTATION MECHANISM; FRAGMENTATION PROCESS; FRICTIONAL STRENGTH; GRAIN SHAPES; GRAIN SIZE; INITIAL STAGES; MEAN-GRAIN SIZE; MECHANICAL BEHAVIOUR; MICROSTRUCTURAL STATE; NORMAL STRESS; POWER LAW SIZE DISTRIBUTION; RELATIVE IMPORTANCE; ROUGH BOUNDARY; SEISMIC SLIPS; SHEAR ZONE; SMOOTH BOUNDARY; SOLID MATERIAL; SPHERICAL PARTICLE;

ABRASION; COMMINUTION; DEBRIS; FRACTURE; FRICTION; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); TRIBOLOGY;

GRINDING (COMMINUTION);

ABRASION; ACTIVE FAULT; COMMINUTION; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; DISCRETE ELEMENT METHOD; FAULT GOUGE; GRAIN SIZE; POWER LAW DISTRIBUTION; SEISMICITY; SHEAR STRAIN; SHEAR ZONE; STRESS FIELD; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 84857570185     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: 14209136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00024-011-0266-6     Document Type: Article

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