Earthquakes have long been recognized as resulting from a stick–slip frictional instability.
The development of a full constitutive law for rock friction now shows that the gamut of …

▪ Abstract This paper reviews rock friction and the frictional properties of earthquake faults.
The basis for rate-and state-dependent friction laws is reviewed. The friction state variable is …

The mechanical sciences are old and venerable. But age does not protect from stupidity.
The Cremona-plan and the theorem of the parallelogram of forces in their seniority have …

This essential reference for graduate students and researchers provides a unified treatment
of earthquakes and faulting as two aspects of brittle tectonics at different timescales. The …

The dependence of the friction force on slip history is described by an experimentally
motivated constitutive law where the friction force is dependent on slip rate and state …

Now in a greatly expanded second edition, this book relates fractals and chaos to a variety
of geological and geophysical applications and introduces the fundamental concepts of …

While considerable progress has been made in friction compensation, this is, apparently, the
first survey on the topic. In particular, it is the first to bring to the attention of the controls …

This monograph deals with the part of the field of experimental rock deformation that is
dominated by the phenomena of brittle fracture on one scale or another. Thus a distinction …

Three‐dimensional analyses are reported of slip on a long vertical strike‐slip fault between
steadily driven elastic crustal blocks. A rate‐and state‐dependent friction law governs …

New observations of the internal structure of the San Gabriel fault (SGF) are combined with
previous characterizations of the Punchbowl fault (PF) to evaluate possible explanations for …