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On the scale dependence in the dynamics of frictional rupture: Constant fracture energy versus size-dependent breakdown work
Marie Estelle Solange Violay, Mathias Alexandre David Lebihain, François Xavier Thibault Passelègue, Fabian Barras, Federica Paglialunga
Potential energy stored during the inter-seismic period by tectonic loading around faults is released during earthquakes as radiated energy, frictional dissipation and fracture energy. The latter is of first importance since it is expected to control the n ...
2022Transition from sub-Rayleigh anticrack to supershear crack propagation in snow avalanches
Johan Alexandre Philippe Gaume, Bertil Trottet, Grégoire Bobillier, Alec van Herwijnen
Avalanches can occur when a porous snow layer lies beneath a dense cohesive snow slab. Field experiments and simulations now reveal different crack-propagation regimes in slab avalanches, similar to rupture propagation following an earthquake. Snow slab av ...
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