Roles of Normal Stress, Roughness, and Slip Displacement in the Stability of Laboratory Fault in a Sandstone

Unstable slip of a fault block is considered to be the main cause of shallow earthquakes. However, the underlying mechanism of the stability-to-instability transition of faults has not been fully understood. Here, we used the stiffness ratio, which is the ratio between the shear stiffness of the fau...

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Main Authors: Wenming Sun, Yingchun Li, Xiaotian Wu, Chun’an Tang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2022-11-01
Series:Applied Sciences
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/12/22/11434