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Judith Savaso Chester
Professor, Texas A&M University College Station
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Understanding Frictional Contacts in Faults during Seismic Slip at Varying Normal Stress
AGU 2024
tectonophysics | 10 december 2024
Santa Bonnett, Xiaofeng Chen, Frederick M. Chester...
Because of the devastating potential of earthquakes, there is great interest in understanding the multi-scale physics of faulting and earthquake ruptu...
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Investigating Dynamic Weakening in Laboratory Faults Using Multi‐Scale Flash Heating Coupled With mm‐Scale Contact Evolution
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH: SOLID EARTH
18 december 2023
Monica R. Barbery, Frederick M. Chester, Judith S....
Flash‐weakening models typically show good agreement with the total magnitude of weakening in high‐speed rock friction experiments, how...
Exploring the Roles of Mineralogy and Roughness on Hotspot Development in High-velocity Sliding Experiments on Faults in Westerly Granite
EFFECTS OF HETEROGENEITIES ON STRAIN LOCALIZATION IN THE CRUST AND MANTLE I ORAL
tectonophysics | 16 december 2022
Monica R. Barbery, Frederick M. Chester, Judith S....
Models for flash-weakening show overall agreement with mechanical results from high-velocity friction experiments on Westerly granite, however some as...
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Clumped Isotope Signatures of Deep Meteoric Fluid Infiltration along the Punchbowl Fault Zone, Southern California
FRICTIONAL, GEOLOGICAL, AND GEOPHYSICAL SIGNATURES OF FAULT HEALING: MECHANISMS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR DEFORMATION DURING THE EARTHQUAKE CYCLE II POSTER
tectonophysics | 13 december 2022
Matthew T. Dorsey, Judith S. Chester, Frederick M....
The Punchbowl fault zone (PFZ) is an inactive, exhumed strand of the San Andreas system accounting for 40-50 km of strike-slip displacement. The main ...
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Investigating flash weakening coupled with local, contact-scale temperature using high-speed friction experiments on granite
PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF EARTH MATERIALS (PPEM): THE LONG AND THE SHORT OF IT II ORAL
mineral and rock physics | 16 december 2021
Monica R. Barbery, Frederick M. Chester, Judith S....
Models of flash weakening at microscopic contacts are consistent with observed weakening at high sliding rates in the lab, but do not correctly descri...
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Characterizing the Distribution of Temperature and Normal Stress on Flash Heated Granite Surfaces at Seismic Slip Rates
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH: SOLID EARTH
24 may 2021
Monica R. Barbery, Frederick M. Chester, Judith S....
At seismic slip rates, flash‐weakening can significantly reduce the coefficient of friction, and the magnitude of weakening increases with su...
Test of the Effective Stress Law for Semibrittle Deformation Using Isostatic and Triaxial Load Paths
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH: SOLID EARTH
17 may 2021
Jihui Ding, Frederick M. Chester, Judith S. Cheste...
For brittle friction and rock deformation, the coefficient α in the general effective stress relation σe = σ −&...
Coupled Brittle and Viscous Micromechanisms Produce Semibrittle Flow, Grain‐Boundary Sliding, and Anelasticity in Salt‐Rock
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH: SOLID EARTH
11 february 2021
Jihui Ding, Frederick M. Chester, Judith S. Cheste...
The operation of fracture, diffusion, and intracrystalline‐plastic micromechanisms during semibrittle deformation of rock is directly relevan...