Off-fault plasticity favors the arrest of dynamic ruptures on strength heterogeneity: Two-dimensional cases

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Hok, S ^a,b   Campillo, M ^a   Cotton, F ^a   Favreau, P ^c   Ionescu, I ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

^c NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR EARTH SCIENCE AND DISASTER PREVENTION   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 13   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOPHYSICS;

DYNAMIC CRACK GROWTHS; DYNAMIC RUPTURES; FRICTIONAL RESISTANCE; HETEROGENEOUS MODELS; PLASTIC BEHAVIOR; PLASTIC YIELDING; RESISTANCE INCREASE; SMALL VARIATIONS;

EARTH SCIENCES;

EID: 84861431491     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL041888     Document Type: Article

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