SUMMARY In market-driven development where time-to-market is of crucial importance, software development companies seek improvements that can decrease the lead-time and improve the delivery precision. One way to achieve this is by analyzing the test process since rework commonly accounts for more than half of the development time. A large reason for high rework costs is fault slippages from ear...

Temporal changes in seismic velocity during the earthquake cycle have the potential to illuminate physical processes associated with fault weakening and connections between the range of fault slip behaviors including slow earthquakes, tremor and low frequency earthquakes1. Laboratory and theoretical studies predict changes in seismic velocity prior to earthquake failure2, however tectonic fault...

We present a study of the brittle tectonics Tunas Alkaline Complex focusing on kinematic and geometric analysis faults shear zones deforming complex. The data acquired respective interpretations sought to contribute post-Cretaceous tectonic structural models southern Brazil. ~83 Ma-old alkaline complex is made up syenites, alkali plutonic volcanic breccias, as well trachyte, microsyenite, bosto...

[1] For a wide range of conditions, earthquake nucleation zones on rateand statedependent faults that obey either of the popular state evolution laws expand as they accelerate. Under the ‘‘slip’’ evolution law, which experiments show to be the more relevant law for nucleation, this expansion takes the form of a unidirectional slip pulse. In numerical simulations these pulses often tend to appro...

A puzzling phenomenon of ice-stream flow is the stick–slip motion displayed by Whillans Ice Stream (WIS), West Antarctica. In this study we test the hypothesis that the WIS stick–slip motion has features similar to those of other known stick–slip systems, and thus might be of the same origin. To do so, we adapt a simple mechanical model widely used in seismology to study classic stick–slip beha...