A Continuum Damage–Breakage Faulting Model and Solid-Granular Transitions

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 171, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 3099-3123

  Lyakhovsky, Vladimir ^a   Ben Zion, Yehuda ^b  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

brittle damage; fault zone rheology; fracture; friction; granular flow; Mechanics of faulting; phase transitions

Indexed keywords

COMBINES; CONFINED FLOW; CONTINUUM DAMAGE MECHANICS; DAMAGE DETECTION; DEFORMATION; ELASTICITY; FAULTING; FRACTURE; FRICTION; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; GRANULAR MATERIALS;

BRITTLE DAMAGE; BRITTLE DEFORMATION; DISTRIBUTED CRACKING; FAULT ZONE; FRICTION COEFFICIENTS; FRICTIONAL RESPONSE; GRAIN SIZE DISTRIBUTION; GRANULAR FLOWS;

PHASE TRANSITIONS;

BREAKAGE; CONTINUUM DAMAGE MECHANICS; FAULT ZONE; FAULTING; FRACTURE; FRICTION; PHASE TRANSITION; RHEOLOGY;

EID: 84911383198     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: 14209136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00024-014-0845-4     Document Type: Article

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