Lecture Notes

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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 (PDF 1)# (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 (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