Interactive comment on “Generation and propagation of stick-slip waves over a fault with rate-independent friction” by Iuliia Karachevtseva

Interactive comment on “Generation and propagation of stick-slip waves over a fault with rate-independent friction” by Iuliia Karachevtseva

Experimental and Numerical Model Studies of Frictional Instability Seismic Sources

Stick-slip frictional instability is widely regarded as a viable mechanism for crustal earthquakes, particularly because of the way that it can be incorporated into the notion of earthquakes as episodic unstable slip events along preexisting zones or planes of weakness represented by faults in the Earth. In this thesis, detailed laboratory observations of stick-slip events generated on a simula...

Potential for earthquake triggering from transient deformations

[1] We report on laboratory experiments in which stick-slipping shear surfaces are subject to transient stressing to simulate earthquake triggering by seismic waves. Granular layers and bare granite surfaces were sheared in a servo-controlled deformation apparatus in double-direct shear. The seismic waves from an earthquake and tectonic load were simulated by superimposing a loading rate sinuso...

Stress Wave Propagation in One-Dimensionally Coupled Stick-Slip Pendulums∗

In this paper, the stress wave propagation in a coupled pendulum system with friction force is discussed experimentally and numerically. The coupled system is analogous to the one dimensional fault dynamics model in seismicity. However, we will not intend to discuss about the geophysical feature of the system. The system has rich characteristics of the spatiotemporal stress wave propagation eff...

Part I : Part Ii : Part Iii : Part Iv

The theory of stick-slip is developed, based on the concept of a static and dynamic coefficient of friction. The dynamic coefficient is assumed to be independent of displacement and to depend wholly on normal stress across the surface. It is also assumed to be velocity-independent. The theory predicts that the stress drop during stick-slip is independent of machine stiffness. The displacement d...