The loading path the fault experiences is often neglected when evaluating its potential for reactivation and related seismic risk. However, stress history affects zone compaction dilation, thus mechanics. Therefore, in incohesive cores that could dilate or compact, role of not be ruled out. Here we reproduce laboratory different tectonic paths reverse (load-strengthening absence significant flu...

In a high-resolution small-scale seismic experiment we investigated the shallow structure of the Wadi Araba fault (WAF), the principal fault strand of the Dead Sea Transform System between the Gulf of Aqaba/Eilat and the Dead Sea. The experiment consisted of 8 sub-parallel 1 km long seismic lines crossing the WAF. The recording station spacing was 5 m and the source point distance was 20 m. The...

As software systems evolve over a series of releases, it becomes important to know which components are stable compared to components that show repeated need for corrective maintenance. The latter is a sign of code decay. Code decay can be due to the deterioration of a single component. In this case it manifests itself in repeated and increasing problems that are local to the component. A secon...

[1] We use geodetic studies to quantify several cases of significant asymmetry in interseismic and coseismic effects along large continental strike-slip faults using simple two-dimensional edge dislocation models. We first show that asymmetric elastic loading characterizes the present Main Marmara Fault, a portion of the North Anatolian Fault along the northern margin of the Sea of Marmara. The...

This paper presents an original non-invasive procedure for the diagnosis of electromagnetic devices, as well as AC electrical rotating machines using two external flux coil sensors that measure the external magnetic field in the machines' vicinity. The diagnosis exploits the signal delivered by the two sensors placed in particular positions. Contrary to classical methods using only one sensor, ...

A framework for development of constitutive models based on semi-micromechanical aspects of plasticity is proposed. The resulting of this model for material employed friction type failure criterion, sub-loading surface, and associated flow rule. This model is capable of predicting effects of the rotation of principal stress/strain axes and consequent plastic flow, induced anisotropy of strength...

As software systems mature, there is the danger that not only code decays, but software architecture as well. We adapt a reverse architecting technique to defect reports of a series of releases. Relationships among system components are identified based on whether they are involved in the same defect report, and for how many defect reports this occurs. There are degrees of fault-coupling betwee...

|This paper is an attempt to understand the processes by which software ages. We de ne code to be aged or decayed if its structure makes it unnecessarily di cult to understand or change, and we measure the extent of decay by counting the number of faults in code in a period of time. Using change management data from a very large, long-lived software system, we explore the extent to which measur...

The trajectory of a hydraulically driven crack near natural fractures, faults, and inhomogeneities has been studied using the complex variable hypersingular boundary element technique. The crack trajectories are presented for the cases of an oblique and a steeply inclined fault. It has been demonstrated that natural fractures, faults, and other inhomogeneities generate unstable fracture conÞgur...

in this research, softening and ratcheting behaviors of ck20 alloy steel cylindrical shells were studied under displacement-control and force-control cyclic axial loading and the behavior of hysteresis curves of specimens was also investigated. experimental tests were performed by a servo-hydraulic instron 8802 machine. the mechanical properties of specimens were determined according to astm e8...