Scale dependence of rock friction at high work rate

Futoshi Yamashita (), Eiichi Fukuyama, Kazuo Mizoguchi, Shigeru Takizawa, Shiqing Xu and Hironori Kawakata
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Futoshi Yamashita: National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention (NIED)
Eiichi Fukuyama: National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention (NIED)
Kazuo Mizoguchi: National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention (NIED)
Shigeru Takizawa: National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention (NIED)
Shiqing Xu: National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention (NIED)
Hironori Kawakata: National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention (NIED)

Nature, 2015, vol. 528, issue 7581, 254-257

Abstract: In metre-sized rock specimens, rock friction starts to decrease at a much smaller work rate than in centimetre-sized rock specimens, thus demonstrating that rock friction is scale-dependent.

Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1038/nature16138

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