Introduction: The observed morphologies of impact basins can only be explained by invoking dramatic weakening of the crater walls and floor during crater collapse, but the mechanism underlying the drop in strength is unknown. Here, we explore the possibility that strain-weakening along faults is the primary mechanism. We present a model of temperatureand pressure-dependant strain-weakening alon...

geological conditions of tabriz, a growing city in nw-iran, are strongly influenced by north tabriz fault (ntf). north tabriz fault is a major seismogenic fault in nw-iran. so, for a correct seismic microzonation, shear wave velocity (vs) structure in different part of city should be determined. but urban conditions, such as ambient noise due to cultural activity, restrict the general applicati...

Pact is a parallel programming environment relieving the programmer from the burdens of parallel programming which are not really necessary to write efficient parallel programs. This is done by providing a simple synchronization model and virtual shared data with user-defined granularity and automatic consistency control. Pact guarantees user-transparent fault-tolerance with low overhead by usi...

an earthquake with the magnitude of 5.9 mw occurred in qeshm island and hormozgan province in november 27th 2005. 3d co-seismic deformation field caused by the earthquake are determined based on the ascending and descending interferograms and azimuth offsets. the peak to peak estimated displacement is about 10 cm in west, 69 cm in north and 22 cm in vertical directions. we apply strain analysis...

We report measurements of the spatial distribution of stacking faults in colloidal crystals formed by means of an oscillatory shear field at a particle volume fraction of 52% in a system where the pair potential interactions are mildly repulsive. Stacking faults are directly visualized via confocal laser scanning microscopy. Consistent with previous scattering studies, shear orders the initiall...

facts technology has considerable applications in power systems, such as; improving the steady stateperformance, damping the power system oscillations, controlling the power flow, and etc. statcom is oneof the most important facts devices used in the parallel compensation, enhancing transient stability andetc. since three phase fault is widespread in power systems, in this paper statcom is used...

PROOFS (Parallel RestOrative Orderindependent Fault Simulator) is a hybrid of concurrent, differential, and parallel fault simulation algorithms. It retains fault dropping advantage of concurrent method, word level parallelism of parallel method and low memory requirement of differential, while minimizing their individual disadvantages. Parallel simulation of faults reduces simulation time of P...

The calc-alkaline Ladakh batholith (NW Himalayas) was dated to constrain the timing of continental collision and subsequent deformation. Batholith growth ended when collision disrupted subduction of the Tethyan oceanic lithosphere, and thus the youngest magmatic pulse indirectly dates the collision. Both U-Pb ages on zircons from three samples of the Ladakh batholith and K-Ar from one subvolcan...

We estimate the critical slip-weakening distance on earthquake faults by using a new approach, which is independent of the estimate of fracture energy or radiated seismic energy. The approach is to find a physically based relation between the breakdown time of shear stress Tb, the time of peak slip-velocity Tpv, and the slip-weakening distance Dc, from the time histories of shear stress, slip, ...