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Authors: | Bizzarri, Andrea* Petri, Alberto* Baldassarri, Andrea* |
Title: | Earthquake dynamics constrained from laboratory experiments: new insights from granular materials | Journal: | Annals of Geophysics | Series/Report no.: | 4/64 (2021) | Publisher: | INGV | Issue Date: | 2021 | DOI: | 10.4401/ag-8613 | URL: | http://www.bo.ingv.it/~bizzarri | Keywords: | Fault rheology Granular materials |
Subject Classification: | Frictional experiments | Abstract: | The traction evolution is a fundamental ingredient to model the dynamics of an earthquake rupture which ultimately controls, during the coseismic phase, the energy release, the stress redistribution and the consequent excitation of seismic waves. In the present paper we explore the use of the friction behavior derived from laboratory shear experiments performed on granular materials at low normal stress. We find that the rheological properties emerging from these laboratory experiments can not be described in terms of preexisting governing models already presented in literature; our results indicate that neither rate–and state–dependent friction laws nor nonlinear slip–dependent models, commonly adopted for modeling earthquake ruptures, are able to capture all the features of the experimental data. Then, by exploiting a novel numerical approach, we directly incorporate the laboratory data into a code to simulate the fully dynamic propagation of a 3–D slip failure. We demonstrate that the rheology of the granular material, imposed as fault boundary condition, is dynamically consistent. Indeed, it is able to reproduce the basic features of a crustal earthquake, spontaneously accelerating up to some terminal rupture speed, both sub– and supershear. |
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