Numerical simulation of comminution in granular materials with an application to fault gouge evolution
The majority of faults display a layer of crushed wear material ("fault gouge") between the fault blocks, which influences the strength and stability of faults. This thesis describes the results of a numerical model used to investigate the process of comminution in a sheared granular mater...
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Texas A&M University
2004
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/371 |