Volcanic sintering: Timescales of viscous densification and strength recovery

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 21, 2013, Pages 5658-5664

  Vasseur, Jérémie ^a   Wadsworth, Fabian B ^a   Lavallée, Yan ^b   Hess, Kai Uwe ^a   Dingwell, Donald B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

brittle; pore emanated crack model; porosity; tuffisite; ultrasonic velocity; volcanic ash

Indexed keywords

BRITTLE; CRACK MODEL; MICRO-MECHANICAL MODELING; NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT; TUFFISITE; UNIAXIAL COMPRESSIVE TESTS; VOLCANIC ASH;

ANTIGEN-ANTIBODY REACTIONS; CRACKS; DENSIFICATION; POROSITY; RECOVERY; ULTRASONIC VELOCITY; VISCOSITY; VOLCANOES;

SINTERING;

BRITTLE DEFORMATION; NONLINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; POROSITY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TIMESCALE; VISCOSITY; VOLCANIC ASH; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

EID: 84887513109     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013GL058105     Document Type: Article

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