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April 21, 2023 GLG510 Advanced Structural Geology
Faults and stress
April 21, 2023 GLG510 Advanced Structural Geology
Relationship between traction and stress
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April 21, 2023 GLG510 Advanced Structural Geology
April 21, 2023 GLG510 Advanced Structural Geology
April 21, 2023 GLG510 Advanced Structural Geology
April 21, 2023 GLG510 Advanced Structural Geology
Faults and stress: traction and stress
Mohr CircleGraphical construction that lets us visualize the relationship between the principal stresses and tractions on a boundary (like a fault).
measured positive clockwise from 1 direction clockwise to plane of interest2 measure positive clockwise from –n direction on Mohr circle
April 21, 2023 GLG510 Advanced Structural Geology
Faults and stress: traction and stress
Equations of the Mohr Circle (also “Cauchy’s equations”)
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Faults and stress: traction and stress
April 21, 2023 GLG510 Advanced Structural Geology
Faults and stress: traction and stress
April 21, 2023 GLG510 Advanced Structural Geology
Faults and stress: traction and stress
April 21, 2023 GLG510 Advanced Structural Geology
Faults and stress: traction and stress
April 21, 2023 GLG510 Advanced Structural Geology
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Faults and stress: traction and stress
April 21, 2023 GLG510 Advanced Structural Geology
= s-Davis and Reynolds
Faults and stress: traction and stress
April 21, 2023 GLG510 Advanced Structural Geology
-Engelder, 1993, Stress regimes in the lithosphere, Princeton Univ. Press
April 21, 2023 GLG510 Advanced Structural Geology
Pollard and Fletcher
April 21, 2023 GLG510 Advanced Structural Geology
Coulomb Law of Failure
Coulomb equation c = c + tan n
Wherec = critical shear stress required for faulting (shear strength)c = cohesive strengthtan = coefficient of internal friction =
April 21, 2023 GLG510 Advanced Structural Geology
April 21, 2023 GLG510 Advanced Structural Geology
Faults and stress: traction and stress
April 21, 2023 GLG510 Advanced Structural Geology-D+R
April 21, 2023 GLG510 Advanced Structural Geology
April 21, 2023 GLG510 Advanced Structural Geology
April 21, 2023 GLG510 Advanced Structural Geology
Practice
April 21, 2023 GLG510 Advanced Structural Geology