Determining conditions for earthquake slip on faults is a key goal of fault mechanics highly relevant to seismic hazard. Previous studies have demonstrated that enhanced dynamic weakening (EDW) can lead rupture with much lower shear stress than required nucleation. We study the before ruptures different sizes spontaneously evolve in numerical simulations sequences rate-and-state EDW due thermal...

The dynamic response of prestressed semiflexible biopolymers is characterized by the propagation and relaxation of tension, which arises due to the near inextensibility of a stiff backbone. It is coupled to the dynamics of contour length stored in thermal undulations but also to the local relaxation of elongational strain. We present a systematic theory of tension dynamics for stiff yet extensi...

This report describes a non-linear method of analysis for prestressed concrete structures which predicts behaviour at all stages of loading, from the initial application of prestress up to and beyond the collapse condition. The method uses a segmental line element approach and is a modification of an existing method previously developed for reinforced concrete structures. Comparisons with the r...