The paper is devoted to the trajectory tracking control task for a differentiallydriven vehicle moving on a plane surface under conditions of the persistent skid-slip phenomena. The Vector Field(s) Orientation (VFO) control strategy, presented originally for undisturbed case in [6], has been reformulated here to the new disturbed motion conditions. The extension of the VFO strategy relies on in...

The near-surface areas of major faults commonly contain weak, phyllosilicate minerals, which, based on laboratory friction measurements, are assumed to creep stably. However, it is now known that shallow faults can experience tens of meters of earthquake slip and also host slow and transient slip events. Laboratory experiments are generally performed at least two orders of magnitude faster than...

[1] The Mw 6.6, 26 December 2003 Bam (Iran) earthquake was one of the first earthquakes for which Envisat advanced synthetic aperture radar (ASAR) data were available. Using interferograms and azimuth offsets from ascending and descending tracks, we construct a three-dimensional displacement field of the deformation due to the earthquake. Elastic dislocation modeling shows that the observed def...

S U M M A R Y Sets of Eto NE-trending sinistral and/or reverse faults occur within the San Andreas system, and are associated with palaeomagnetic evidence for clockwise vertical-axis rotations. These structures cut across the trend of active dextral faults, posing questions as to how displacement is transferred across them. Geodetic data show that they lie within an overall dextral shear field,...

The flow and heat transfer of an electrically conducting non-Newtonian second grade fluid due to a radially stretching surface with partial slip is considered. The partial slip is controlled by a dimensionless slip factor, which varies between zero (total adhesion) and infinity (full slip). Suitable similarity transformations are used to reduce the resulting highly nonlinear partial differentia...

Recent efforts in planetary robotic exploration aim toward craters, skylights, and other depressions with challenging terrain conditions. The access to such places requires traversing on extreme slopes where high levels of slip greatly hamper rover mobility and control. To successfully reach valuable targets such as water ice and mineral outcrops in these locations, slip must be promptly arrest...

A new method will be introduced for the derivation of thermodynamically consistent boundary conditions for the full Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes-Fourier system for two immiscible fluids, where the phase field variable (order parameter) is given in terms of concentrations or partial densities. Five different types of models will be presented and discussed. The article can be considered as a conti...

The evaluation of long-wavelength deformation associated with interseismic strain accumulation traditionally relies on spatially sparse GPS measurements, or on high spatial-resolution InSAR velocity fields aligned to a GPS-based model. In this approach the InSAR contributes only shortwavelength deformation and the two data sets are dependent, thereby challenging the evaluation of the InSAR unce...

The cause of asperities (i.e., high-slip regions) remains the subject of much debate in seismology. Several tomography studies have reported previously that high-velocity bodies coincide with asperities. However, it remains unclear whether the heterogeneity of the crust generates these asperities. This can be addressed by conducting stress analysis. The 2004 Chuetsu, Japan earthquake is one of ...