A Quantitative Fracture Model for the Initiation of Submarine Landslides

Abstract

My long term goals are to develop, test, and clearly present new quantitative methods for evaluating stresses in the earth's crust and for understanding fracture or fracture-like phenomena and associated deformation, especially phenomena pertaining to faults and landslides.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 1997
Accession Number
ADA628219

Entities

People

  • Stephen J. Martel

Organizations

  • University of HawaiĘ»i System

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Boundaries
  • Boundary Element Methods
  • Computer Simulations
  • Electronic Mail
  • Fluid Flow
  • Fracture (Mechanics)
  • Geometry
  • Information Operations
  • Landslides
  • Mechanics
  • Simulations
  • Stresses
  • Submarines
  • Three Dimensional
  • Two Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Geology

Readers

  • Coastal Oceanography
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Materials Science and Engineering.