Fault Wear by Damage Evolution During Steady-State Slip

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 171, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 3143-3157

  Lyakhovsky, Vladimir ^a   Sagy, Amir ^a   Boneh, Yuval ^b   Reches, Ze’ev ^c  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Damage rheology; Fault wear; Friction; Wear rate

Indexed keywords

ELASTIC MODULI; ELASTICITY; FRICTION; SHEAR STRESS;

CONFINING PRESSURES; EARTHQUAKE FAULT; FRICTION AND WEAR; SCALING RELATIONS; SEISMOGENIC ZONES; SIMULATED RESULTS; STEADY-STATE CONDITION; WEAR RATES;

WEAR OF MATERIALS;

DAMAGE; FAULT GOUGE; FRICTION; HOST ROCK; RHEOLOGY; ROCK MECHANICS; SHEAR MODULUS; SHEAR STRESS; SLIP; WEAR;

EID: 84908434588     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: 14209136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00024-014-0787-x     Document Type: Article

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