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Physical explanation for the displacement-length relationship of faults using a post-yield fracture mechanics model
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In this paper, a plane strain model for a fault is presented that takes into account the inelastic deformation involved in fault growth, and the model requires that the stresses at the tip of the fault never exceed the shear strength of the surrounding rock.About:
This article is published in Journal of Structural Geology.The article was published on 1992-11-01. It has received 592 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Fault model & Fault (geology).read more
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The Mechanics of Earthquakes and Faulting
TL;DR: The connection between faults and the seismicity generated is governed by the rate and state dependent friction laws -producing distinctive seismic styles of faulting and a gamut of earthquake phenomena including aftershocks, afterslip, earthquake triggering, and slow slip events.
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Scaling of fracture systems in geological media
E. Bonnet,Olivier Bour,Noelle E. Odling,Philippe Davy,Ian Main,Patience A. Cowie,Brian Berkowitz +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide guidelines for the accurate and practical estimation of exponents and fractal dimensions of natural fracture systems, including length, displacement and aperture power law exponents.
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Tectono-sedimentary evolution of active extensional basins
Rob L. Gawthorpe,Mike Leeder +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present conceptual models for the tectono-sedimentary evolution of rift basins, including the processes of fault propagation, growth, linkage and death.
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Crustal thickening in Gansu-Qinghai, lithospheric mantle subduction, and oblique, strike-slip controlled growth of the Tibet plateau
Bertrand Meyer,Paul Tapponnier,Laurence Bourjot,François Métivier,Y Gaudemer,Gilles Peltzer,Guo Shunmin,Chen Zhitai +7 more
TL;DR: For example, this paper showed that the most active thrusts usually break the ground many kilometres north of the range-fronts, along the northeast limbs of growing, asymmetric ramp-anticlines.
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Fault damage zones
TL;DR: In this article, the authors use a geometric classification of damage zones into tip-, wall-, and linking-damage zones, based on their location around faults, which can be sub-divided in terms of fault and fracture patterns within the damage zone.
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Yielding of steel sheets containing slits
TL;DR: In this article, a relation between extent of plastic yielding and external load applied was investigated, and panels containing internal and edge slits were loaded in tension and lengths of plastic zones were measured.
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The mathematical theory of equilibrium cracks in brittle fracture
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a unified view of the way basic problems in the theory of equilibrium cracks are formulated and discuss the results obtained thereby, and the object of the theory is the study of the equilibrium of solids in the presence of cracks.
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Fault behavior and characteristic earthquakes: Examples from the Wasatch and San Andreas Fault Zones
TL;DR: In this article, an analysis of scarp-derived colluvium in trench exposures across the Wasatch fault provides estimates of the timing and displacement associated with individual surface faulting earthquakes.
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Mechanics of discontinuous faults
Paul Segall,David Pollard +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors derived a two-dimensional solution for any number of nonintersecting cracks arbitrarily located in a homogeneous elastic material, including the elastic interaction between cracks.
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The Growth of Slip Surfaces in the Progressive Failure of Over-Consolidated Clay
Andrew Palmer,James R. Rice +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used fracture mechanics to derive conditions for the propagation of a concentrated shear band in heavily overconsolidated clays and found that the mean resolved shear stress on that surface is markedly less than the peak shear strength.
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