Meso-scale shear physics in earthquake and landslide mechanics

 Content: I. Dynamics of frictional slip 1. Thermo- and hydro-mechanical processes along faults during rapid slip J.R. Rice, E.M. Dunham & H. Noda 2. Slip sequences in laboratory experiments as analogues to earthquakes associated with a fault edge S.M. Rubinstein, G. Cohen, J. Fineberg & Z. Reches 3. On the mechanism of junction growth in pre-sliding A. Ovcharenko, G. Halperin & I. Etsion 4. Nanoseismic measurement of the localized initiation of sliding friction G. McLaskey & S.D. Glaser 5. Weakly nonlinear fracture mechanics: Experiments and theory E. Bouchbinder, A. Livne & J. Fineberg    II. Fault gauge mechanics 6. The effect of mineral decomposition as a mechanism of fault weakening during seismic slip J. Sulem & V. Famin 7. Thermal mechanisms and friction laws determining the stability and localization during slip weakening of shallow faults E. Veveakis, S. Alevizos & I. Vardoulakis 8. Cataclastic and ultra-cataclastic shear using breakage mechanics I. Einav & G.D. Nguyen    III. Experimental fault zone mechanics 9. Strain localization in granular fault zones at laboratory and tectonic scales C.J. Marone & A. Rathbun 10. Some new experimental observations on fracture roughness anisotropy G. Grasselli 11. Constraints on faulting mechanisms using 3D measurements of natural faults A. Sagy & E.E. Brodsky 12. Nonlinear elasticity and scalar damage rheology model for fractured rocks V. Lyakhovsky & Y. Hamiel 13. Damage rheology and stable versus unstable fracturing of rocks Y. Hamiel, V. Lyakhovsky, O. Katz, Y. Fialko & Z. Reches 14. Micro-scale roughness effects on the friction coefficient of granite surfaces under varying levels of normal stress O. Biran , Y.H. Hatzor & A. Ziv    IV. Granular shear and liquefaction 15. Friction in granular media J.C. Santamarina & H. Shin 16. What controls the effective friction of shearing granular media? M. Nataliya, L. Goren, D. Sparks & E. Aharonov 17. Pore pressure development and liquefaction in saturated sand S. Frydman, M. Talesnick, A. Mehr & M. Tsesarsky 18. Characterizing localization processes during liquefaction using inverse analyses of instrumentation arrays R. Kamai & R. Boulanger 19. On seismic P- and S-wave velocities in unconsolidated sediments: Accounting for non-uniform contacts and heterogeneous stress fields in the effective media approximation R. Bachrach & P. Avseth    V. Dynamics of landslides 20. Thermo-poro-mechanical effects in landslide dynamics L. Goren, E. Aharonov & M. Anders 21. Mechanisms of fluid overpressurization related to instability of slopes on active volcanoes D. Elsworth, B. Voight & J. Taron Author index