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Fault and Rock Mechanics: 2005 Projects

Projects associated with Fault and Rock Mechanics:

Title and Principal Investigators
Annual Report
Evolution laws for rate and state friction  (Sleep, Norman)
Sleep_05002_report.pdf
(592 KB)

Dynamics of Rupture Propagation with Fault Branches, Stepovers, and Damaged Border Zones  (Rice, James)
Rice_05018_report.pdf
(1 MB)

A FARM/ESP/Earthquake Geology Field-based workshop for the 2005 SCEC Annual Meeting: Recent advances in fault zone studies and their impact on earthquake source processes  (Evans, James and others)
Evans_05029_report.pdf
(100 KB)

Spatial Distribution and Properties of Pulverized Fault Zone Rock Along the Mojave Section of the San Andreas Fault  (Ben-Zion, Yehuda)
Ben-Zion_05036_report.pdf
(164 KB)

Coupled Evolution of Earthquakes and Faults in a Regional Model with Damage Rheology  (Ben-Zion, Yehuda)
Ben-Zion_05038_report.pdf
(264 KB)

Thermal Weakening in Large Seismic Slips and Effects on Rupture Dynamics  (Rice, James)
Rice_05062_report.pdf
(716 KB)

An Experimental Study of the Generation of Off-Fault Damage in the Stress Field of a Dynamic Rupture and its Role in the Mechanics of the Earthquake Source  (Sammis, Charles and Biegel, Ronald)
Sammis_05067_report.pdf
(3.9 MB)

Physics-based Simulation of Earthquake Occurrence in Fault Systems  (Dieterich, James)
Dieterich_05069_report.pdf
(3.2 MB)

Pilot Studies to Determine the Feasibility of Using New Experimental Techniques to Measure Sliding Resistance at Seismic Slip Rates  (Prakash, Vikas)
None
Modeling earthquake nucleation and triggering on faults with rate and state friction  (Lapusta, Nadia)
Lapusta_05160_report.pdf
(256 KB)

Earthquake Nucleation on Nonplanar Fault Systems  (Oglesby, David and Xu, Guanshui)
Oglesby_05012_report.pdf
(1.4 MB)

Collaborative Proposal (with Nadia Lapusta, Caltech): Supershear Rupture Dynamics  (Rice, James and Lapusta, Nadia)
Rice_05019_report.pdf
(728 KB)

3D Rupture Dynamics Code Validation 2005 Workshop  (Harris, Ruth and Archuleta, Ralph)
Harris_05033_report.pdf
(580 KB)

Earthquake Dynamics in Two Classes of Heterogeneous Faults  (Ben-Zion, Yehuda)
Ben-Zion_05037_report.pdf
(652 KB)

Rapid Response to the 2004 September 28 M6 Parkfield Earthquake: Study of the Spatio-Temporal Variations of Damage on the San Andreas Fault at Parkfield.  (Li, Yong-Gang)
Li_05039_report.pdf
(2.1 MB)

A Collaborative Project: 3D Rupture Dynamics, Validation of the Numerical Simulation Method  (Harris, Ruth and others)
Harris_05043_report.pdf
(548 KB)

Sequences of Cascading Elastodynamic Ruptures on Geometrically Complex Faults: Rupture Initiation, Propagation, Termination, and Variation  (Shaw, Bruce)
Shaw_05085_report.pdf
(180 KB)

Characterization of Microstructures Relevant to Earthquake Mechanics in Natural and Experimental Slip Surfaces  (Chester, Judith and )
Chester_05088_report.pdf
(2 MB)

Developing Testable Models of Heterogeneous Crustal Stress  (Heaton, Thomas)
Heaton_05127_report.pdf
(360 KB)

Dynamics of Rupture on Inhomogeneous Faults  (Day, Steven and others)
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Collaborative Proposal: Supershear Rupture Dynamics  (Rice, James and Lapusta, Nadia)
Rice_05152_report.pdf
(728 KB)

Imaging Spectroscopy of Trench Stratigraphy:Toward High Spatial and Spectral Resolution  (Minster, Bernard and others)
Minster_05158_report.pdf
(388 KB)

Quasi-Dynamic Parallel Numerical Modeling of Earthquake Interactions Over a Wide Magnitude Range Using Rate and State Friction and Fast Multipoles  (Tullis, Terry and Beeler, N. M.)
Tullis_05133_report.pdf
(1.5 MB)

Measuring Fault Surface Topography and Roughness with Ground-based LIDAR  (Brodsky, Emily and Axen, Gary)
Brodsky_05148_report.pdf
(932 KB)





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