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Brittle Deformation of Solid and Granular Materials with Applications to Mechanics of Earthquakes and Faults

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  • © 2012

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Editors:
  1. Yehuda Ben-Zion

    1. Dept. Earth Sciences, University of Southern California College of Letters, Arts & Sciences, Los Angeles, USA

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  2. Charles Sammis

    1. Dept. Earth Sciences, University of Southern California College of Letters, Arts & Sciences, Los Angeles, USA

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  • Presents state-of-the-art research on repeated brittle deformation in earthquake fault zones
  • Discusses connections between responses of solids and granular materials to shear loading
  • Combines insights from statistical physics, structural geology, rock mechanics, nonlinear continuum mechanics, friction, fracture mechanics, granular mechanics and surface physics at various scales

Part of the book series: Pageoph Topical Volumes (PTV)

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Keywords

  • brittle damage
  • dynamics of earth materials
  • earthquake fault zones
  • granular mechanics
  • nonlinear deformation
  • structural geology

About this book

Earthquake fault zones exhibit hierarchical damage and granular structures with evolving geometrical and material properties. Understanding how repeated brittle deformation form the structures and how the structures affect subsequent earthquakes is a rich problem involving coupling of various processes that operate over broad space and time scales. The diverse state-of-the-art papers collected here show how insight can come from many fields including statistical physics, structural geology and rock mechanics at large scales; elasticity, friction and nonlinear continuum mechanics at intermediate scales; and fracture mechanics, granular mechanics and surface physics at small scales.

 

This volume will be useful to students and professional researchers from Earth Sciences, Material Sciences, Engineering, Physics and other disciplines, who are interested in the properties of natural fault zones and the processes that occur between and during earthquakes.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Dept. Earth Sciences, University of Southern California College of Letters, Arts & Sciences, Los Angeles, USA

    Yehuda Ben-Zion, Charles Sammis

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Brittle Deformation of Solid and Granular Materials with Applications to Mechanics of Earthquakes and Faults

  • Editors: Yehuda Ben-Zion, Charles Sammis

  • Series Title: Pageoph Topical Volumes

  • Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel

  • Copyright Information: Springer Basel AG 2012

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-0348-0253-6Published: 09 February 2012

  • Series ISSN: 2504-3625

  • Series E-ISSN: 2504-3633

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: V, 303

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