The physics of rock failure and earthquakes /
"Physical modelling of earthquake generation processes is essential to further our understanding of seismic hazard. However, the scale-dependent nature of earthquake rupture processes is further complicated by the heterogeneous nature of the crust. Despite significant advances in the understand...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2013.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Fundamentals of rock failure physics
- 2.1 Mechanical properties and constitutive relations
- 2.1.1 Elastic deformation
- 2.1.2 Ductile deformation
- 2.1.3 Fracture
- 2.1.4 Friction
- 2.2 Basics of rock fracture mechanics
- 2.2.1 Energy release rate and resistance to rupture growth
- 2.2.2 Stress concentration and cohesive zone model
- 2.2.3 Breakdown zone model for shear failure
- 2.2.4 j-integral and energy criterion for shear failure
- 2.2.5 Relation between resistance to rupture growth and constitutive relation parameters
- 3 Laboratory-derived constitutive relations for shear failure
- 3.1 Shear failure of intact rock
- 3.1.1 Method and apparatus used
- 3.1.2 Constitutive relations derived from data on the shear failure of intact rock
- 3.1.3 Geometric irregularity of shear-fractured surfaces and characteristic length
- 3.2 Frictional slip failure on precut rock interface
- 3.2.1 Method and apparatus used
- 3.2.2 Geometric irregularity of precut fault surfaces and characteristic length
- 3.2.3 Constitutive relations derived from data on frictional stick-slip failure
- 3.2.4 Laboratory-derived relationships between physical quantities observed during dynamic slip rupture propagation
- 3.3 Unifying constitutive formulation and a constitutive scaling law
- 3.3.1 Unification of constitutive relations for shear fracture and for frictional slip failure
- 3.3.2 A constitutive scaling law
- 3.3.3 Critical energy required for shear fracture and for frictional stick-slip failure
- 3.3.4 Stabilityinstability of the breakdown process
- 3.3.5 Breakdown zone size
- 3.4 Dependence of constitutive law parameters on environmental factors
- 3.4.1 Introduction
- 3.4.2 Dependence of shear failure strength on environmental factors.
- 3.4.3 Dependence of breakdown stress drop on environmental factors
- 3.4.4 Dependence of breakdown displacement on environmental factors
- 4 Constitutive laws for earthquake ruptures
- 4.1 Basic foundations for constitutive formulations
- 4.2 Rate-dependent constitutive formulations
- 4.3 Slip-dependent constitutive formulations
- 4.4 Depth dependence of constitutive law parameters
- 5 Earthquake generation processes
- 5.1 Shear failure nucleation processes observed in the laboratory
- 5.1.1 Introduction
- 5.1.2 Experimental method
- 5.1.3 Nucleation phases observed on faults with different surface roughnesses
- Rough fault
- Smooth fault
- Extremely smooth fault
- 5.1.4 Scaling of the nucleation zone size
- 5.2 Earthquake rupture nucleation
- 5.2.1 Seismogenic background
- 5.2.2 Physical modeling and theoretical derivation of the nucleation zone size
- 5.2.3 Comparison of theoretical relations with seismological data
- 5.2.4 Foreshock activity associated with the nucleation process
- 5.3 Dynamic propagation and generation of strong motion seismic waves
- 5.3.1 Slip velocity and slip acceleration in the breakdown zone
- 5.3.2 The cutoff frequency fs max of the power spectral density of slip acceleration at the source
- 5.3.3 Environmental factors for the generation of high-frequency strong motion at the source
- 6 Physical scale-dependence
- 6.1 Introduction
- 6.2 Scaling property incorporated into the slip-dependent constitutive law
- 6.3 Root cause of scale-dependence
- 6.4 Physical scaling of scale-dependent physical quantities
- 6.4.1 Scaling relationships between Xc and Dc, and between Lc and Dc
- 6.4.2 Physical scaling of the duration time of shear rupture nucleation
- 6.4.3 Scale-dependence of apparent shear rupture energy
- 6.5 Fault heterogeneity and the Gutenberg-Richter frequency-magnitude relation.
- 7 Large earthquake generation cycles and accompanying seismic activity
- 7.1 The cyclical process of typical large earthquakes on a fault
- 7.2 The process leading up to a large earthquake and seismic activity
- 7.2.1 Seismic activity at later stages of the recurrence interval
- 7.2.2 Seismic activity immediately before a mainshock earthquake
- 7.3 Predictability of large earthquakes
- 7.3.1 Introduction
- 7.3.2 Long-term forecasting
- 7.3.3 Intermediate-term forecasting
- Other precursory phenomena that may be helpful for an intermediate-term forecast
- 7.3.4 Short-term forecasting
- Illustration credits
- Copyright by the American Geophysical Union
- Copyright by the American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Copyright by the Seismological Society of America
- Copyright by Birkhauser Verlag
- Copyright by Elsevier Science Publishers
- Copyright by Polish Scientific Publishers PWN
- Copyright by TERRAPUB
- Copyright by the University of Tokyo Press
- References
- Index.