Modeling of fault gouges with Cosserat Continuum Mechanics: Influence of thermal pressurization and chemical decomposition as coseismic weakening mechanisms

Journal of Structural Geology

Volumn 38, Issue , 2012, Pages 254-264

  Veveakis, Emmanuil ^a   Sulem, Jean ^b   Stefanou, Ioannis ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS EST   (France)

Author keywords

Cosserat Continuum; Micro inertia; Reaction kinetics; Shear heating; Undrained adiabatic shearing

Indexed keywords

ADIABATIC SHEARING; CHEMICAL DECOMPOSITION; COSSERAT CONTINUUM; DECOMPOSITION REACTION; FAULT GOUGE; HIGHER ORDER CONTINUUM; ILL POSED PROBLEM; LOCALIZATION OF DEFORMATION; MICRO-STRUCTURAL; MICROINERTIA; ROTATIONAL DEGREES OF FREEDOM; SEISMIC DEFORMATION; SHEAR HEATING; SIMPLE SHEAR; SLIP RATES; THERMAL PRESSURIZATION; ULTRA-THIN;

CONTINUUM MECHANICS; REACTION KINETICS;

FAULT SLIPS;

CONTINUUM MECHANICS; COSEISMIC PROCESS; DECOMPOSITION; DEFORMATION; FAULT GOUGE; MICROSTRUCTURE; MODELING; REACTION KINETICS; SHEAR ZONE;

EID: 84859929381     PISSN: 01918141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsg.2011.09.012     Document Type: Article

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