| Issue |
EPJ Web Conf.
Volume 249, 2021
Powders & Grains 2021 – 9th International Conference on Micromechanics on Granular Media
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| Article Number | 15006 | |
| Number of page(s) | 4 | |
| Section | Miscellaneous | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202124915006 | |
| Published online | 07 June 2021 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202124915006
Dilation as a precursor in a continuous granular fault
1
Institut Lumière Matière, UMR5306 Université Lyon 1-CNRS, Université de Lyon 69622 Villeurbanne, France
2
Department of Earth and Space Science, Osaka University, 560-0043 Osaka, Japan
3
PoreLab, The Njord Centre, Department of Physics, University of Oslo, P. O. Box 1048, 0316 Oslo, Norway
* e-mail: victor.levy-dit-vehel@univ-lyon1.fr
** e-mail: osvanny.ramos@univ-lyon1.fr
Published online: 7 June 2021
We analyze the dilation of the system in a cylindrical granular fault consisting of one single layer of disks submitted to both normal pressure and continuous and slow shear, which results in intermittent and sudden energy release events that reproduce the main laws of seismicity. The dilation of the system can be separated into two parts: a smooth increase of dilation, plus sudden changes both contracting and dilating the medium, which are correlated to abrupt jumps -both positive and negative- in the measured resisting torque. We explain the four possible (and existing) general scenarios combining those two variables: dilation jumps and torque jumps, thanks to the assumption of an optimal local angle in the direction of force chains, and each reorganization of the structure as a replacement of the force chain holding most of the applied stress. The average rate of increase of global dilation varies monotonically with the size of the energy release event, making dilation a plausible candidate to predict catastrophic events in such earthquake-like systems.
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