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SUBMITTER: de Geus TWJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6883799 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
de Geus Tom W J TWJ Popović Marko M Ji Wencheng W Rosso Alberto A Wyart Matthieu M
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20191107 48
Sliding at a quasi-statically loaded frictional interface can occur via macroscopic slip events, which nucleate locally before propagating as rupture fronts very similar to fracture. We introduce a microscopic model of a frictional interface that includes asperity-level disorder, elastic interaction between local slip events, and inertia. For a perfectly flat and homogeneously loaded interface, we find that slip is nucleated by avalanches of asperity detachments of extension larger than a critic ...[more]