Stiffness evolution of granular layers and the origin of repetitive, slow, stick-slip frictional sliding

Granular Matter

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 447-457

  Leeman, John ^a   Scuderi, Marco Maria ^a   Marone, Chris ^a   Saffer, Demian ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Critical stiffness; Frictional stick slip; Rate and state friction; Slow slip; Stick slip

Indexed keywords

FRICTION; SHEAR STRAIN; SLIP FORMING; STIFFNESS; TRIBOLOGY;

CONSTITUTIVE PROPERTIES; CRITICAL STIFFNESS; FRICTIONAL BEHAVIOR; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR; RATE AND STATE FRICTION; SLOW SLIP; STICK-SLIP BEHAVIOR;

STICK-SLIP;

EID: 84938414304     PISSN: 14345021     EISSN: 14347636     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10035-015-0565-1     Document Type: Article

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