Large and destructive earthquakes on mature faults in Earth's crust occur as slip in a layer of
a fine granular material—fault gouge—produced by comminution during sliding,. A range of …

Establishing a constitutive law for fault friction is a crucial objective of earthquake science.
However, the complex frictional behavior of natural and synthetic gouges in laboratory …

Fluids are known to trigger a broad range of slip events, from slow, creeping transients to
dynamic earthquake ruptures. Yet, the detailed mechanics underlying these processes and …

The processes occurring on the Earth are controlled by several gradients. The surface of the
Planet is featured by complex geological patterns produced by both endogenous and …

Dynamic disturbance resulting from blasting, excavation, and earthquakes might change the
stress state, friction characteristics, failure mechanism, and the fault's failure mode, induce …

We numerically investigate the role of plastic strain accumulation on the mechanical
response of a planar strike‐slip fault. Our models show that fault‐zone strength significantly …

Background Digital image correlation (DIC) is a powerful experimental tool for measuring full-
field material deformations. Inherent limitations of typical DIC algorithms can cause a …

We perform numerical simulations of sequences of earthquake and aseismic slip on planar
rate and state faults separating dissimilar material within the 2-D plane strain approximation …

Megathrust earthquakes exhibit a ubiquitous seismic radiation style: low‐frequency (LF)
seismic energy is efficiently emitted from the shallowest portion of the fault, whereas high …

This study aims at assessing the predictive performance of the Amontons–Coulomb law to
reliably predict the cyclic response, inclusive of stick–slip, of a single degree of freedom …