Plastic yielding as a frequency and amplitude independent mechanism of seismic wave attenuation

Geophysics

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Yarushina, Victoria M ^a   Podladchikov, Yuri Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY DISSIPATION; SEISMOLOGY; STRAIN; TENSILE STRENGTH;

AMPLITUDE INDEPENDENTS; COMPRESSIONAL WAVE ATTENUATION; EFFECTIVE PRESSURE; FREQUENCY INDEPENDENT; MATHEMATICAL FORMULATION; MICROSCOPIC CAVITIES; QUALITY FACTOR Q; SEISMIC WAVE ATTENUATIONS;

YIELD STRESS;

AMPLITUDE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PLASTICITY; SEISMIC WAVE; STRAIN; STRESS; WAVE ATTENUATION; WAVE PROPAGATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; OVERPRESSURE; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; TENSILE STRENGTH;

EID: 84864155105     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.3420734     Document Type: Article

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