Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Author "Dunham, Eric M."
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Earthquake Ruptures with Thermal Weakening and the Operation of Major Faults at Low Overall Stress Levels
Noda, Hiroyuki; Dunham, Eric M.; Rice, James R. (American Geophysical Union, 2009)We model ruptures on faults that weaken in response to flash heating of microscopic asperity contacts (within a rate-and-state framework) and thermal pressurization of pore fluid. These are arguably the primary weakening ... -
Earthquake Slip Between Dissimilar Poroelastic Materials
Dunham, Eric M.; Rice, James R. (American Geophysical Union, 2008)A mismatch of elastic properties across a fault induces normal stress changes during spatially nonuniform in-plane slip. Recently, Rudnicki and Rice showed that similar effects follow from a mismatch of poroelastic properties ... -
Thermo- and Hydro-mechanical Processes along Faults during Rapid Slip
Rice, James R.; Dunham, Eric M.; Noda, Hiroyuki (CRC Press, 2009)Field observations of maturely slipped faults show a generally broad zone of damage by cracking and granulation. Nevertheless, large shear deformation, and therefore heat generation, in individual earthquakes takes place ...