We analyzed four pairs of a large (Mw "'6) and a small (Mw "' 3.5 to 4) shallow strike-slip earthquakes to investigate the scale-dependence. of the seismic energy-tomoment ratio, an important macroscopic parameter which reflects the basic physical process of seismic slip. These earthquakes occurred in the south-western part of Japan, and high-quality close-in records (epicentral distance< 50 km...

It is believed that the failure mode of metal nanowires under tensile loading is the result of the nucleation and propagation of dislocations. Such failure modes can be slip, partial slip or twinning and therefore they are regarded as local deformation. Here we provide numerical and theoretical evidences to show that global deformation is another predominant failure mode of nanowires under tens...

By using the method of the visibility graph (VG) the synthetic seismicity generated by a simple stick-slip system with asperities is analysed. The stick-slip system mimics the interaction between tectonic plates, whose asperities are given by sandpapers of different granularity degrees. The VG properties of the seismic sequences have been put in relationship with the typical seismological param...

Peristaltic transport of copper-water nanofluid in an inclined channel is reported in the presence of mixed convection. Both velocity and thermal slip conditions are considered. Mathematical modelling has been carried out using the long wavelength and low Reynolds number approximations. Resulting coupled system of equations is solved numerically. Quantities of interest are analyzed through grap...

New microstructural rate controlling models for high temperature deformation are suggested which are in satisfactory agreement not only with activation parameter values but also with various metallographic observations. Non-compact slip in the HCP and FCC structures can be described by a kink pair mechanism. This process could control dislocation glide through subgrains, and therefore the creep...

Mechanical vibrations are known to affect frictional sliding and the associated stick-slip patterns causing sometimes a drastic reduction of the friction force. This issue is relevant for applications in nanotribology and to understand earthquake triggering by small dynamic perturbations. We study the dynamics of repulsive particles confined between a horizontally driven top plate and a vertica...

Tire-road friction is estimated using the wheel-slip computed from standard sensor signals. A parametric model is estimated using an adaptive lter supported by a fault detector. Results from extensive eld trials are presented. An approach to estimate the tire{road friction during normal drive using only the wheel slip, that is, the relative diierence in wheel velocities, is presented. The drive...

A difficulty in the classical hydrodynamic analysis of moving contact-line problems, associated with the no-slip wall boundary condition resulting in an unbalanced divergence of the viscous stresses, is reexamined with a smoothed, finite-width interface model. The analysis in the sharp-interface limit shows that the singularity of the viscous stress can be balanced by another singularity of the...

The investigation is to explore the transportation of a viscoelastic fluid with fractional Burgers’ model by peristalsis through a channel under the influence of wall slip condition. This analysis has been carried out under the assumption of long wavelength and low Reynolds number. An approximate analytical solution of the problem is obtained by using Homotopy Analysis method (HAM). It is assum...

There is much practical need in obtaining independent information about earthquake-source dynamic properties directly from observable data. One such dynamic parameter, the peak slip velocity during earthquake rupture, can be calculated from the corner frequencies of the source spectra, on the assumption of the validity of the ω-source model. To obtain the source terms, observed Fourier spectra ...