An empirically based steady state friction law and implications for fault stability

Empirically based rate-and-state friction laws (RSFLs) have been proposed to model the dependence of friction forces with slip and time. The relevance of the RSFL for earthquake mechanics is that few constitutive parameters define critical conditions for fault stability (i.e., critical stiffness and...

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Publié dans:Geophysical research letters. - 1984. - 43(2016), 7 vom: 16. Apr., Seite 3263-3271
Auteur principal: Spagnuolo, E (Auteur)
Autres auteurs: Nielsen, S, Violay, M, Di Toro, G
Format: Article
Langue:English
Publié: 2016
Accès à la collection:Geophysical research letters
Sujets:Journal Article earthquake mechanics fault stability fault stiffness friction laws slip events