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New Perspectives on Crack and Fault Dynamics

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Mechanics for a New Mellennium

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Recent observations on the dynamics of crack and fault rupture are described, together with related theory and simulations in the frame-work of continuum elastodynamics. Topics include configurational instabilities of tensile crack fronts (crack front waves, disordering, side-branching), the connection between frictional slip laws and modes of rupture propagation in earth faulting, especially conditions for formation of self-healing slip pulses, and the rich faulting and cracking phenomena that result along dissimilar material interfaces due to coupling between slippage and normal stress alteration.

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Rice, J.R. (2001). New Perspectives on Crack and Fault Dynamics. In: Aref, H., Phillips, J.W. (eds) Mechanics for a New Mellennium. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-46956-1_1

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