In this presentation i have given basic fault study and the important rate and state friction law. The presentation walks through the elastic rebound theory also. Thus the basic idea of why earthquake occurs, how this rate and state law came into the picture is crystal clear.
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Rate and State friction law
1. Study on fault basics and
Rate and state friction law
Presented By:-
RAVAL CHAITANYA
IU1751210010
Guided By:-
Assistant Professor Vasudeo Chaudhari
3. Introduction
Fault is a fracture/zone of fracture between two blocks of rock
In a simple way, fault is the movement of rock on either side
Faults are the boundaries of huge plates that make up earths crust
If the rock movement is sudden, it causes earthquake
If the rock movement is slow, it is called creep, an aseismic process
Faults can be horizontal, vertical or oblique
Angle of fault with respect to surface (dip) and direction of slip along fault are defined to
classify faults
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4. Types of fault
Faults which move along the direction of dip plane are dip-slip faults
(in vertical direction)
If hanging wall moves downward, it is called Normal fault slip
If hanging wall moves upward, it is called Reverse (Thrust) fault slip
Faults which move horizontally are called strike-slip fault
If the far block on either side moves in left, it is called left lateral strike-slip
If the far block on either side moves in right, it is called right lateral strike-slip
Sometimes fault doesnt come up to the surface, it is known as Blinded fault
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7. What is an earthquake?
Earthquake is the energy released due to sudden movement of rocks in form of seismic
waves
Causes of earthquake : 1 Surface causes
2 Volcanic causes
3 Tectonic causes
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8. Elastic rebound theory
Elastic rebound theory represents the occurrence of tectonic earthquake
Considering an earthquake has just occurred in a block, which causes co-seismic
deformation
After certain time many after-shocks will cause post-seismic deformation
Considering time t = 0, when all energy is dissipated
Slow accumulation of stress between the blocks will start from t = 0
Pre-seismic deformation may occur between blocks in few centimeters for many years
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10. Conti
The stress accumulated in the blocks are not uniformly distributed, it is localized stress at
different portion
Localized stresses are concentrated in a narrow band in width around the fault
Once the deformation around the fault is such that the stresses are greater than the frictional
resistance of blocks, earthquake is triggered
At t = 0, sudden release of accumulated slip on fault occurs, which causes slip on the
fault, known as elastic rebound
Earthquake is a cyclic process, not necessarily periodic
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11. Nucleation procedure
Fault rupture causes an earthquake
The point at which the earthquake is triggered is known as Nucleation, rupture than
propagate in all direction from the nucleation point
Fault rupture may have only one or many ruptures on the fault plane
Many times earthquake triggered at one point causes perturbation on nearer fault, which
leads the other fault earthquake having an earthquake, called induced vibration
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12. Asperity, slip, recurrence time, slip-rate
Whenever two plates collide, there is chance that one plate sub-duct the other one
At one point, the sub-ducting plate and the upper plate get locked as they both move
towards each other
The locked area is known as Asperity of fault
Whenever earthquake occurs, the relative displacement occurs between two plates, it is
known as Slip
The duration between two major events is called recurrence time interval
Suppose major event of earthquake occurs every 1000 years and average slip per major
event is 3 meters, then the average creep of 3000/1000 = 3 mm/year occurs, called slip
rate
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13. Stick-slip motion
Any variation in frictional resistance during sliding causes dynamic instability, a sudden
movement occurs due to stress drop
In repetitions, the sliding occurs when stress is recharged, followed by another instability
Essentially, in such systems where sliding occurs due to instability, such frictional behavior
is called regular stick-slip.
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15. Conti
Condition for instability,
> K
Coulomb proposed that the static friction coefficient must exceed the dynamic coefficient
of friction for the unstable sliding
Robanowicz said if two surfaces are kept stationary, given the load for time t, the static
friction coefficient increases with log t
Robanowicz proposed Critical distance Dc, when friction value is changed from one value
to other, the instability is given by,
袖 袖
> K
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16. Rate and state friction
Time and velocity both are important aspects for friction
An increase of 袖 upon the initiation of sliding, followed by previous decay of steady-
state value, the effect is called healing
As Deiterich-Ruina stated that friction depends on instantaneous sliding velocity V and
time-dependent variable 慮
袖 = 袖 (V, 慮) = 袖0 + a* ln
0
+ b* ln
0
where, = 1 -
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17. Conti 17
Figure 12(A): Static-dynamic model Figure 12(B): Slip weakening Figure 12(C): Deiterich-Ruina friction
model
18. Conti
(A) for shear stress, = 袖*, where 袖 is coefficient of friction and is normal stress
(B) shear stress is the decreasing function of slip un to 倹 and then remain at constant
stress, most common way is piece-wise linear
Alternative law is Stribeck-curve, depending on a single quantity yet pure velocity
dependence fails to give the stress drop at particular point
Aging law for healing and slip law for rapid change in slip are combined for proper result
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19. Conti
The friction at steady state velocity,
袖 = 袖0 + (a-b) * ln
0
if 袖 is defined as 袖 at velocity V, then
袖
ln
= a-b
In the static case when 慮 = t, so for long hold times
袖
(ln )
= b
the friction jump of the direct effect is given by
袖 = a* ln
2
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20. A and B parameters
Seismogenic layer
If a > b, rate strengthening
If a < b, rate weakening
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Figure 13: Parameters A and B effect in generation of
earthquake
21. References
STICK-SLIP INSTABILITIES AND SHEAR STRAIN LOCALIZATION IN AMORPHOUS MATERIALS
EG Daub, JM Carlson - Physical Review E, 2009
AFTERSLIP AND AFTERSHOCKS IN THE RATEANDSTATE FRICTION LAW
A Helmstetter, BE Shaw - Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 2009
SOURCE SCALING PROPERTIES FROM FINITE-FAULT-RUPTURE MODELS
PM Mai, GC Beroza - Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 2000
THE DYNAMIC ANALYSIS OF STICK-SLIP MOTION
C Gao, D Kuhlmann-Wilsdorf, DD Makel - Wear, 1994
[HTML] TOWARDS A UNIVERSAL RULE ON THE RECURRENCE INTERVAL SCALING OF REPEATING
EARTHQUAKES?
KH Chen, RM Nadeau, RJ Rau - Geophysical Research Letters, 2007
[PDF] SEMINAR ON B-VALUE
O Kulhanek - Dept. of Geophysics, Charles University, Prague, 2005
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22. References
NONLINEAR STRAIN BUILDUP AND THE EARTHQUAKE CYCLE ON THE SAN ANDREAS
FAULT
W Thatcher - Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 1983
THEORETICAL AND QUANTITATIVE ANALYSES OF THE FAULT SLIP RATE UNCERTAINTIES
FROM SINGLE EVENT AND EROSION OF THE ACCUMULATED OFFSET
Z Ren, Z Zhang, T Chen, W Wang - Island Arc, 2013
ON THE VARIATION OF B-VALUES WITH EARTHQUAKE SIZE
EA Okal, BA Romanowicz - Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors,
1994
SOURCE MECHANISMS OF EARTHQUAKES: THEORY AND PRACTICE
A Ud鱈as, R Madariaga, E Buforn - 2014
THE MECHANICS OF EARTHQUAKES AND FAULTING- BY CHRISTOPHER H. SCHOLZ
RA Harris - Seismological Research Letters, 2003
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