Experimental friction data for different grain size quartz gouges under different effective normal stresses (NERC Grant NE/P002943/1)
The data are from a suite of friction experiments performed on 3 different grain size quartz gouges (5, 15 and 30 microns). The quartz gouge layers were sheared under a range of effective normal stresses (40-120 MPa), at a displacement rate of 1 micron/s, and the evolution of shear stress was monitored with increasing displacement (up to a maximum displacement of 8.5 mm). The gouges typically exhibit a transition from stable sliding, where the gouge layers shear in a continuous smooth fashion, to unstable sliding with displacement, where the gouges exhibit stick-slip behaviour. The transition from stable to unstable sliding occurs more efficiently in fine-grained quartz gouges and is promoted by high effective normal stresses.
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Friction (engineering)
Shear strength
Quartz
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Fault gouge
Normal stress
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2020-01-13
University of Liverpool
John Bedford
School of Environmental Sciences, 4 Brownlow Street,
Liverpool,
L69 3GP
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University of Liverpool
John Bedford
School of Environmental Sciences, 4 Brownlow Street,
Liverpool,
L69 3GP
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Data were collected using a direct shear setup, where layers of quartz gouge were sheared in a triaxial deformation apparatus. In the direct shear geometry the normal stress is applied by the confining pressure (Pc), and pore fluid pressure (Pf) is introduced to the sample through the three porous disks on each of the direct shear forcing blocks. Deionized water was used as the pore fluid, which was held at a constant pressure of 20 MPa for all experiments in this study. The samples are sheared by the axial piston of the triaxial apparatus at a constant displacement rate of 1 µm/s. The evolution of shear stress is monitored by an internal force gauge, with a measurement resolution better than 0.05 kN, while the effective normal stress (=Pc-Pf) is held constant by servo-controlled pumps, with a resolution better than 0.1 MPa, on both the confining and pore pressure systems.
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2024-04-24