Lecture Notes

The below table contains notes distributed to the class to supplement the lectures.

WEEK # TOPICS LECTURE NOTES

1

Strength Profiles in the Earth

Mode, Mechanism, and Scaling of Strength: Preliminary Issues (PDF)

Stress Strain Strength Profiles (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF 1) (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF 2)

2

Constitutive Relations, Elasticity

  

3-4

Friction in Rocks

Friction on Rock Interfaces (PDF)

5-6

Fracture Surface Energy and Elastic Solutions of Interest

Fracture Surface Energy (PDF)

Some Elastic Solutions of Interest (PDF)

7

Linear Elastic Fracture Mechanics (LEFM)

LEFM I (PDF)

LEFM II (PDF)

8-9

Brittle Failure Modes

Brittle Fracture Micromechanics (PDF)

Brief Comments on Effects of Fluids (PDF)

10

Crystal Plastic Mechanisms: Diffusion Creep

Point Defects in Minerals (PDF)

Diffusion Creep in Mono Atomic Crystal (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF)

11-12

Dislocation Creep

Strain Production and Preferred Orientation (PDF)

Crystal Geometry (PDF)

Line Defects in Minerals (PDF)

Low Temperature High Stress Laws (PDF)

13-14

Student Papers