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Séminaire PMMH Lucilla de Arcangelis (Univ. of Naples)
Acoustic fluidization and remote earthquake triggering
Lucilla de Arcangelis, Eugenio Lippiello, Massimo Pica Ciamarra
Engineering Department
University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”
Occasionally, a major earthquake can trigger additional events at distances up to 1000 km away. How that happens is a longstanding puzzle since the amplitude of the seismic waves decreases the farther they travel. We address this problem by a numerical approach modelling the seismic fault as a granular medium (the fault gouge) confined between two rough rigid plates. We show that the unexpected weakness of some faults can be attributed to the emergence of acoustic waves that promote failure by reducing the confining pressure, mechanism known as acoustic fluidization. Indeed, the stick-slip dynamics in a granular seismic fault model is strongly affected by perturbations applied at a characteristic frequency, promoting oscillations normal to the fault, which lead to gradual dynamical weakening and failure. Acoustic waves at the same characteristic frequency spontaneously emerge at the onset of failure in the absence of perturbations, supporting the relevance of acoustic fluidization in earthquake triggering. From the micromechanical point of view, particles belonging to the percolating backbone, which sustains the stress, perform synchronized oscillations over elliptic-like trajectories parallel to the fault plane. These oscillations occur at the characteristic frequency of acoustic fluidization. As the applied shear stress increases because of the incoming seismic wave, these oscillations can become perpendicular to the fault plane, opposing the confining pressure and leading to failure. Seismic waves at the characteristic frequency, even if with a very small amplitude, can lead to remote earthquake triggering.
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Séminaire PMMH - Salvatore Federico (University of Calgary, Canada)
Vendredi 4 juillet de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Continuum Mechanics of Hydrated Fibre-Reinforced Soft Tissues
Biological tissues can be represented as bi-phasic continua, with a porous solid phase saturated by an interstitial fluid and reinforced by collagen fibers. This lecture will give an overview of the modelling techniques for fibre-reinforced porous composite materials with statistical orientation of the fibers. Both (…) -
Séminaire PMMH - Salvatore Federico (University of Calgary, Canada)
Vendredi 4 juillet de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Continuum Mechanics of Hydrated Fibre-Reinforced Soft Tissues
Biological tissues can be represented as bi-phasic continua, with a porous solid phase saturated by an interstitial fluid and reinforced by collagen fibers. This lecture will give an overview of the modelling techniques for fibre-reinforced porous composite materials with statistical orientation of the fibers. Both (…)
The audience is composed of people with rather heterogeneous backgrounds including specialists in solids, fluids, granular flows, statistical physics... so the idea is to keep your talk understandable by people not necessarily working in your field... The seminar time slot runs from 11am to noon so the best is to make the talk last around 45 minutes to leave some time for discussion.
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