Mechanics, Structure and Evolution of Fault Zones

Introduction (Ben-Zion, Sammis).- Structural properties and deformation patterns of evolving strike-slip faults: Numerical simulations incorporating damage rheology (Finzi, Hearn, Ben-Zion, Lyakhovsky).- Segmentation along strike-slip faults revisited (de Joussineau, Aydin).- Influence of outcrop scale fractures on the effective stiffness of fault damage zone rocks (Griffith, Sanz, Pollard).- Effects of off-fault damage on earthquake rupture propagation: experimental studies (Sammis, Rosakis, Bhat).- Geometry of the Nojima fault at Nojima-Hirabayashi, Japan - I. A simple damage structure inferred from borehole core permeability (Lockner, Tanaka, Ito, Ikeda, Omura, Naka).- Geometry of the Nojima fault at Nojima-Hirabayashi, Japan - II. Microstructures and their implications for permeability and strength (Moore, Lockner, Ito, Ikeda, Tanaka, Omura).- The energetics of cataclasis based on breakage mechanics (Nguyen, Einav).- Chemical and Physical Characteristics of Pulverized Tejon Lookout Granite Adjacent to the San Andreas and Garlock Faults: Implications for Earthquake Physics (Rockwell, Sisk, Girty, Dor, Wechsler, Ben-Zion).- Characterization of damage in sandstones along the Mojave section of the San Andreas Fault: implications for the shallow extent of damage generation (Dor, Chester, Ben-Zion, Brune, Rockwell).- Constructing constitutive relationships for seismic and aseismic fault slip (Beeler).- Non-planar faults: Mechanics of slip and off-fault damage (Dieterich, Smith).- Characterization of Fault Roughness at Various Scales: Implications of Three-Dimensional High Resolution Topography Measurements (Candela, Renard, Bouchon, Brouste, Marsan, Schmittbuhl, Voisin).- Spatio-temporal slip, and stress level on the faults within the western foothills of Taiwan: implications for fault frictional properties (Hsu, Avouac, Yu, Chang, Wu, Woessner).- Landslides, Ice Quakes, Earthquakes: A Thermodynamic Approach to Surface Instabilities (Regenauer-Lieb, Yuen, Fusseis).