Meso-Scale Shear Physics in Earthquake and Landslide Mechanics: Batsheva Seminar, 25-30 January 2009, Ein Gedi, the Dead Sea Valley, Israel

This book brings together state of the art, peer reviewed, papers on shear physics at the meso-scale in earthquake and landslide mechanics and is authored by leading international scientists. The Identification of meso-scale phenomena occurring between microscopic and continuum length scales has been one of the most exciting developments in the last decade in understanding shear between material interfaces as well as particulate systems and is considered as the bridge between the two length scales for studying material response. This area or research has broad applications to the fields of earth sciences and geo-engineering, with immediate bearing on our understanding of earthquake and landslide mechanics, two geological processes that pose great risk to man kind worldwide.

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