Physics – Geophysics
Scientific paper
Jun 1991
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1991pggp.rept..104p&link_type=abstract
In NASA, Washington, Reports of Planetary Geology and Geophysics Program, 1990 p 104-106 (SEE N92-10728 01-91)
Physics
Geophysics
Brittleness, Fracturing, Icy Satellites, Lithosphere, Planetary Craters, Planetary Crusts, Planetary Evolution, Shear Stress, Coefficient Of Friction, Failure, Fractures (Materials), Friction Factor, High Pressure, Rocks, Sliding
Scientific paper
In attempting to understand the endogenic processes which have shaped the surface of an icy satellite, it is desirable to quantify the failure strength of the satellite's lithosphere. In a crust that is fractured on a large scale, frictional sliding along pre-existing fractures occurs in response to lower differential stresses than required to initiate fracture of pristine rock, thus governing failure of a brittle lithosphere. Failure is predicted along favorably oriented fracture planes; if fractures of all orientations are assumed to be present in the crust (as is expected of a heavily cratered lithosphere), frictional failure relations are directly applicable. The Coulomb criterion predicts that the shear stress (sigmat) and normal stress (sigman) components on a fracture plane at failure are related as sigmat = mu-sigman + So, where So is the cohesion and mu is the coefficient of friction. At moderate to high pressures, the frictional sliding strength of most materials is found to be sigmat = 0.85 sigma sub n.
Greeley Ronald
Pappalardo Robert
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