Statistical Physics Of Fracture Breakdown And Earthquake

Author : Soumyajyoti Biswas,Purusattam Ray,Bikas K. Chakrabarti
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783527412198

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Statistical Physics of Fracture, Breakdown, and Earthquake by Soumyajyoti Biswas,Purusattam Ray,Bikas K. Chakrabarti Pdf

In this book, the authors bring together basic ideas from fracture mechanics and statistical physics, classical theories, simulation and experimental results to make the statistical physics aspects of fracture more accessible. They explain fracture-like phenomena, highlighting the role of disorder and heterogeneity from a statistical physical viewpoint. The role of defects is discussed in brittle and ductile fracture, ductile to brittle transition, fracture dynamics, failure processes with tension as well as compression: experiments, failure of electrical networks, self-organized critical models of earthquake and their extensions to capture the physics of earthquake dynamics. The text also includes a discussion of dynamical transitions in fracture propagation in theory and experiments, as well as an outline of analytical results in fiber bundle model dynamics With its wide scope, in addition to the statistical physics community, the material here is equally accessible to engineers, earth scientists, mechanical engineers, and material scientists. It also serves as a textbook for graduate students and researchers in physics.

Author : Bikas K. Chakrabarti,Lucien-Gilles Benguigui
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0198520565

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Statistical Physics of Fracture and Breakdown in Disordered Systems by Bikas K. Chakrabarti,Lucien-Gilles Benguigui Pdf

Under extreme conditions the mechanical or electrical properties of solids tend to destabilize, leading to failure or breakdown. These instabilities often nucleate or spread from disorders in the structure of the solid. This book by two experts in the field investigates current techniques for modeling these failure and breakdown processes. It illustrates the basic modeling principles through a series of computer and laboratory simulations and `table top' experiments. The book centers on three important case studies: electrical failures like fuse and dielectric breakdown; mechanical fractures; and earthquakes, which exhibit dynamic failure. The material will interest all graduate students and researchers studying disordered systems, whether their focus is the mechanical failure of solids, the electrical breakdown of conductors, or earthquake mechanics.

Author : Yehuda Ben-Zion,Charles Sammis
Publisher : Birkhäuser
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 3034802536

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Brittle Deformation of Solid and Granular Materials with Applications to Mechanics of Earthquakes and Faults by Yehuda Ben-Zion,Charles Sammis Pdf

Earthquake fault zones exhibit hierarchical damage and granular structures with evolving geometrical and material properties. Understanding how repeated brittle deformation form the structures and how the structures affect subsequent earthquakes is a rich problem involving coupling of various processes that operate over broad space and time scales. The diverse state-of-the-art papers collected here show how insight can come from many fields including statistical physics, structural geology and rock mechanics at large scales; elasticity, friction and nonlinear continuum mechanics at intermediate scales; and fracture mechanics, granular mechanics and surface physics at small scales. This volume will be useful to students and professional researchers from Earth Sciences, Material Sciences, Engineering, Physics and other disciplines, who are interested in the properties of natural fault zones and the processes that occur between and during earthquakes.

Author : Pratip Bhattacharyya,Bikas K. Chakrabarti
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 531 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2006-09-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783540353737

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Modelling Critical and Catastrophic Phenomena in Geoscience by Pratip Bhattacharyya,Bikas K. Chakrabarti Pdf

This book presents a broad survey of models for critical and catastrophic phenomena in the geosciences, with strong emphasis on earthquakes. It assumes the perspective of statistical physics, which provides the theoretical frame for dealing with complex systems in general. This volume addresses graduate students wishing to specialize in the field and researchers working or interested in the field having a background in the physics, geosciences or applied mathematics.

Author : Yan Y. Kagan
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781118637890

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Earthquakes by Yan Y. Kagan Pdf

This book is the first comprehensive and methodologically rigorous analysis of earthquake occurrence. Models based on the theory of the stochastic multidimensional point processes are employed to approximate the earthquake occurrence pattern and evaluate its parameters. The Author shows that most of these parameters have universal values. These results help explain the classical earthquake distributions: Omori's law and the Gutenberg-Richter relation. The Author derives a new negative-binomial distribution for earthquake numbers, instead of the Poisson distribution, and then determines a fractal correlation dimension for spatial distributions of earthquake hypocenters. The book also investigates the disorientation of earthquake focal mechanisms and shows that it follows the rotational Cauchy distribution. These statistical and mathematical advances make it possible to produce quantitative forecasts of earthquake occurrence. In these forecasts earthquake rate in time, space, and focal mechanism orientation is evaluated.

Author : Valerio de Rubeis,Zbigniew Czechowski,Roman Teisseyre
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783642123009

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Synchronization and Triggering: from Fracture to Earthquake Processes by Valerio de Rubeis,Zbigniew Czechowski,Roman Teisseyre Pdf

Processes of synchronization and interaction play a very special role in different physical problems concerning the dynamics of the Earth’s interior; they are of particular importance in the study of seismic phenomena, and their complexity is strongly affected by the variety of geological structures and inhomogeneities of the medium that hamper the course of these processes and their intensity. The attempt to tackle these problems is a great challenge from experimental, observational and theoretical point of view. We present in this Monograph the theoretical and experimental results achieved in the frame of the European Project “Triggering and synchronization of seismic/ acoustic events by weak external forcing as a sign of approaching the critical point” (INTAS Ref. Nr 05-1000008-7889); in this Project, which was inspired by Professor Tamaz Chelidze, our aim was to give grounds for better understanding and interpretation of dynamical interactive processes of physical ?elds, both found in the laboratory experiments as well as in ?eld observations. One of the leading problems – related to synchronization and interaction of different physical ?elds in fracture processes concerns triggering and initiation of rupture and displa- ments within the Earth interior. From this point of view, the results from laboratory studies on synchronization and interaction and those found and involved in ?eld observations, helped to improve the theoretical background. Reversely, some of the presented new theoretical approaches have served to stimulate laboratory and ?eld studies.

Author : Ferenc Kun,Alex Hansen,Purusattam Ray,Srutarshi Pradhan
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782889740116

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The Fiber Bundle by Ferenc Kun,Alex Hansen,Purusattam Ray,Srutarshi Pradhan Pdf

Author : Christopher H. Scholz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2002-05-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781107079038

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The Mechanics of Earthquakes and Faulting by Christopher H. Scholz Pdf

Our understanding of earthquakes and faulting processes has developed significantly since publication of the successful first edition of this book in 1990. This revised edition, first published in 2002, was therefore thoroughly up-dated whilst maintaining and developing the two major themes of the first edition. The first of these themes is the connection between fault and earthquake mechanics, including fault scaling laws, the nature of fault populations, and how these result from the processes of fault growth and interaction. The second major theme is the central role of the rate-state friction laws in earthquake mechanics, which provide a unifying framework within which a wide range of faulting phenomena can be interpreted. With the inclusion of two chapters explaining brittle fracture and rock friction from first principles, this book is written at a level which will appeal to graduate students and research scientists in the fields of seismology, physics, geology, geodesy and rock mechanics.

Author : Yong-Gang Li
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783110432510

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Rock Anisotropy, Fracture and Earthquake Assessment by Yong-Gang Li Pdf

This monograph provides an up-to-date overview on methods and techniques in seismology, with a focus on describing and detecting seismic waves in anisotropic media. The author discusses structural, physical and mechanical aspects of the crust by analyzing earthquake data from field studies, rendering the book a practical reference for researchers in seismology and applied geophysics. Contents: Rock Anisotropy, Fracture and Earthquake Assessment Seismic Wave Propagation in Anisotropic Rocks with Applications to Defining Fractures in Earth Crust Reproducing the Realistic Compressive-tensile Strength Ratio of Rocks using Discrete Element Model Rock Fracture under Static and Dynamic Stress Multiple Linear Regression Analyses on the Relationships among Magnitude, Rupture Length, Rupture Width, Rupture Area, and Surface Displacement PI Algorithm Applied to the Sichuan-Yunnan Region: A Statistical Physics Method for Intermediate-term Medium-range Earthquake Forecast in Continental China Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Assessment for Pacific Island Countries

Author : Sebastiano D'Amico
Publisher : Springer
Page : 706 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319217536

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Earthquakes and Their Impact on Society by Sebastiano D'Amico Pdf

This book provides an integrated approach to the assessment of seismic hazards. The reduction of losses expected by future earthquakes is probably the most important contribution of seismology to society. Large earthquakes occurred in densely populated areas highlight the dramatic inadequacy of a massive portion of the buildings demonstrating the high risks of modern industrial societies. Building earthquake-resistant structures and retrofitting old buildings on a national scale can be extremely expensive and can represent an economic challenge even for developed western countries. Earthquakes can cause also several psychological problems due to the fact that such kind of disasters will result in casualties, collapsing of houses, strategic buildings and facilities and deeply affect a community. Moreover in our society it is necessary to properly plan emergency responses and rescues taking into account any possible secondary effect in order to avoid more casualties.

Author : Alex Hansen,Per Christian Hemmer,Srutarshi Pradhan
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783527671984

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The Fiber Bundle Model by Alex Hansen,Per Christian Hemmer,Srutarshi Pradhan Pdf

Gathering research from physics, mechanical engineering, and statistics in a single resource for the first time, this text presents the background to the model, its theoretical basis, and applications ranging from materials science to earth science. The authors start by explaining why disorder is important for fracture and then go on to introduce the fiber bundle model, backed by various different applications. Appendices present the necessary mathematical, computational and statistical background required. The structure of the book allows the reader to skip some material that is too specialized, making this topic accessible to the engineering, mechanics and materials science communities, in addition to providing further reading for graduate students in statistical physics.

Author : Fouad Sabry
Publisher : One Billion Knowledgeable
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : PKEY:6610000498215

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Econophysics by Fouad Sabry Pdf

What is Econophysics The discipline of econophysics is an unconventional interdisciplinary research field that applies ideas and methods that were initially established by physicists in order to tackle difficulties in economics. These challenges typically involve uncertainty or stochastic processes and nonlinear dynamics. It has also been referred to as statistical finance, which is a phrase that refers to its roots in statistical physics. Some of its applications to the study of financial markets involve statistical finance. There is a strong connection between econophysics and social physics. How you will benefit (I) Insights, and validations about the following topics: Chapter 1: Econophysics Chapter 2: Complex system Chapter 3: Fischer Black Chapter 4: El Farol Bar problem Chapter 5: Joseph L. McCauley Chapter 6: Thermoeconomics Chapter 7: Statistical finance Chapter 8: Complexity economics Chapter 9: J. Barkley Rosser Jr. Chapter 10: Institutionalist political economy Chapter 11: Didier Sornette Chapter 12: Jean-Philippe Bouchaud Chapter 13: Bikas Chakrabarti Chapter 14: Kinetic exchange models of markets Chapter 15: Quantitative analysis (finance) Chapter 16: Quantum finance Chapter 17: Mathematical finance Chapter 18: Dragon king theory Chapter 19: Physics of financial markets Chapter 20: Quantum economics Chapter 21: Tiziana Di Matteo (II) Answering the public top questions about econophysics. (III) Real world examples for the usage of econophysics in many fields. (IV) Rich glossary featuring over 1200 terms to unlock a comprehensive understanding of econophysics. (eBook only). Who will benefit Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those who want to go beyond basic knowledge or information for any kind of econophysics.

Author : B. V. Kostrov,Shamita Das
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0521303451

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Principles of Earthquake Source Mechanics by B. V. Kostrov,Shamita Das Pdf

Kostrov and Das present a general theoretical model summarizing our current knowledge of fracture mechanics as applied to earthquakes and earthquake source processes. Part I explains continuum and fracture mechanics, providing the reader with some background and context. Part II continues with a discussion of the inverse problem of earthquake source theory and a description of the seismic moment tensor. Part III presents specific earthquake source models. Although data processing and acquisition techniques are discussed only in simplified form for illustrative purposes, the material in this book will aid in better orienting and developing these techniques. The aim of this book is to explore the phenomena underlying earthquake fracture and present a general theoretical model for earthquake source processes.

Author : Kristy F. Tiampo,Dion K. Weatherley,Stuart A. Weinstein
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2008-11-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783764387570

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Earthquakes: Simulations, Sources and Tsunamis by Kristy F. Tiampo,Dion K. Weatherley,Stuart A. Weinstein Pdf

This volume attempts to present the current state of seismic research by focusing not only on the modeling of earthquakes and earthquake generated tsunamis, but also on practical comparisons of the resulting phenomenology. In the 1990s, major advancements in seismic research greatly added to the understanding of earthquake fault systems as complex dynamical systems. Large quantities of new and extensive remote sensing data sets provided information on the solid earth.

Author : A. Bizzarri,S. Das,A. Petri
Publisher : IOS Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781614999799

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Mechanics of Earthquake Faulting by A. Bizzarri,S. Das,A. Petri Pdf

The mechanics of earthquake faulting is a multi-disciplinary scientific approach combining laboratory inferences and mathematical models with the analysis of recorded data from earthquakes, and is essential to the understanding of these potentially destructive events. The modern field of study can be said to have begun with the seminal papers by B. V. Kostrov in 1964 and 1966. This book presents lectures delivered at the summer school ‘The Mechanics of Earthquake Faulting’, held under the umbrella of the Enrico Fermi International School of Physics in Varenna, Italy, from 2 to 7 July 2018. The school was attended by speakers and participants from many countries. One of the most important goals of the school was to present the state-of-the-art of the physics of earthquakes, and the 10 lectures included here cover the most challenging aspects of the mechanics of faulting. The topics covered during the school give a very clear picture of the current state of the art of the physics of earthquake ruptures and also highlight the open issues and questions that are still under debate, and the book will be of interest to all those working in the field.