What Happens When Two Ruptures Collide?

S Latour, F Passelègue, F Paglialunga… - Geophysical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
We investigate the interaction between two rupture fronts as they propagate toward each
other and ultimately collide. This phenomenon was observed during laboratory experiments …

Unsteady slip pulses under spatially-varying prestress

A Pomyalov, E Bouchbinder - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2024 - Elsevier
It has been recently established that self-healing slip pulses under uniform
background/ambient stress (prestress) τ b are intrinsically unstable frictional rupture modes …