Parameters determining the portion of energy radiated during dynamic unloading of a section of rock massif

Resumo

Presented are the main results of laboratory experiments aimed at studing the regularities of transition of the cumulated deformation energy to the kinetic one when a block exhibits stick-slip along model fracture filled with geomaterials with different properties. It was shown that even a small variation of material composition of the fault principal slip zone may result in a significant variation of the portion of seismic energy radiated during dynamic unloading of the enclosing rock massif.