高速で岩石の摩擦のスケール依存
Futoshi Yamashita1, Eiichi Fukuyama1, Kazuo Mizoguchi1,2
1National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention (NIED), Tsukuba 305-0006, Japan.
Nature
|December 15, 2015
まとめ
岩の摩擦は,ストレスの異質性により,より大きなスケールで顕著に弱まります. この発見は1メートルの大きさの岩石実験に基づいていますが 自然の断層は小さなサンプルから推測されたより速く強さを失っていることを示唆しています
科学分野:
- 地理学
- ロック・メカニクス
- 地震科学
背景:
- 岩石の摩擦性質は 地震の仕組みを理解する鍵です
- 以前の研究では,小型の岩石の試料の滑り率と作業速度が増加した摩擦強度が低下したことが示されました.
研究 の 目的:
- 大規模な実験を用いて,スケール依存の岩石摩擦を調査する.
- 岩石の摩擦に関する小規模な発見が自然断層の寸法に適用されるかどうかを判断する.
主な方法:
- 大規模な二軸摩擦装置を用いて 岩の標本を測定しました
- 機械的,視覚的,物質的観測を行った.
- 観測された摩擦特性に基づいて数値シミュレーションを行いました.
主要な成果:
- 石の摩擦は,センチメートルサイズの標本よりも低い作業速度で弱まります.
- スリップが進化したストレスの異質性により,ゴージの形成とストレスの濃度が説明されます.
- 数値シミュレーションで実験結果が確認された.
結論:
- 自然の断層は,小規模な実験によって予測されるよりも速く力を失うかもしれません.
- 規模に依存する摩擦特性には,正確な地震力学のモデル化が不可欠です.
- 局所的なストレス濃度は,マクロスコピック断層強度に大きな影響を与えます.
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