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SUBMITTER: Zhang X
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5098201 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Zhang Xiaoming X Shcherbakov Robert R
Scientific reports 20161107
The occurrence of aftershocks is a signature of physical systems exhibiting relaxation phenomena. They are observed in various natural or experimental systems and usually obey several non-trivial empirical laws. Here we consider a cellular automaton realization of a nonlinear viscoelastic slider-block model in order to infer the physical mechanisms of triggering responsible for the occurrence of aftershocks. We show that nonlinear viscoelasticity plays a critical role in the occurrence of afters ...[more]