Issue |
EPL
Volume 96, Number 1, October 2011
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Article Number | 14001 | |
Number of page(s) | 6 | |
Section | Electromagnetism, Optics, Acoustics, Heat Transfer, Classical Mechanics, and Fluid Dynamics | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/96/14001 | |
Published online | 15 September 2011 |
Vibration-induced slip in sheared granular layers and the micromechanics of dynamic earthquake triggering
1
Laboratory for Building Science and Technology, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, EMPA - Überlandstrasse 129, CH-8600, Dübendorf, Switzerland
2
Solid Earth Geophysics Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory - MS D443, NM 87545, Los Alamos, USA
3
Center for Nonlinear Studies, Los Alamos National Laboratory - MS B258, NM 87545, Los Alamos, USA
4
Department of Geosciences, Pennsylvania State University - PA 16802, State College, USA
5
G3 Center and Energy Institute, Pennsylvania State University - PA 16802, State College, USA
6
Chair of Building Physics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich, ETHZ - CH-8093, Zürich, Switzerland
Received:
13
February
2011
Accepted:
11
August
2011
We perform 2D Molecular Dynamics simulations of sheared granular layers in the presence of applied vibration. A primary goal is to understand the physics of dynamic earthquake triggering. We adopt a mesoscopic measure of non-affine deformation for characterizing the granular dynamics during slip without or with applied vibration. Our results show that the onset of non-affine strains correlates with the onset of slip and appears earlier in the presence of vibration than in its absence, in agreement with the evidence for triggered slip.
PACS: 45.70.-n – Granular systems / 61.43.-j – Disordered solids / 91.30.Px – Earthquakes
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