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As discussed by Weber et al. (1978), the same mechanism appears to have operated in experiments performed by Mandl et al. (1977), during which continuous clay smears were produced in a ring-shear apparatus by extruding material from a sheared-off clay band. In these experiments, the much smaller difference between the fault-parallel and the fault-normal stress within the plastic clay, as compared with that in the sand, must have caused the observed extrusion. 

Normal Faults Normal faults form when the hanging wall moves downwards relative to the footwall along the fault plane. 

Strike-Slip Faults Normal faults form when the movement is horizontal along a generally vertical fault plane due to shear stress. 

Earthquake Mechanisms and Stress Field, Fig. 9 The fault instability is shown for all possible fault normals it is colour-scaled and ranges between 0 (the most stable plane) and 1 (the most unstable plane). The lower-hemisphere equal-area projection is used. Directions of the (Tj, (72 and (73 axes are (azimuth/plunge) 146748°, 327°/42° and 237°/l°. The shape ratio/f is 0.80 and the fault Motion n is 0.5 (Modified after Vavrycuk et al. (2013))... 

Numerical tests performed with sets of 25-250 focal mechanisms are presented. The stress tensor is fixed for all datasets. The focal mechanisms are selected to satisfy the Mohr-Coulomb failure criterion (see Fig. 12a, b) and subsequently they are used for the calculation of moment tensors. The moment tensors were contaminated by uniform noise ranging from 0 to 50 % of the norm of the moment tensor (calculated as the maximum of absolute values of the moment tensor eigenvalues). The noisy moment tensors were decomposed back into strikes, dips and rakes of noisy focal mechanisms inverted for stress. The deviation between the true and noisy fault normals and slips attained values from 0° to 25°... 

Forward directivity occurs when the fault rupture propagates toward a site with a rupture velocity that is approximately equal to the shear wave velocity. In this case, most of the energy arrives coherently in a single, intense, relatively long-period pulse at the begitming of the record representing the cumulative effect of almost all the seismic radiation from the fault. Forward directivity pulses are polarized in the fault-normal direction for both strike-slip and dip-slip... 

Grotmd motions close to fault ruptures (within about 30 km), i.e., near-fault ground motions, can have distinct characteristics such as the directivity effect in the fault-normal direction and the fling step in the fault-parallel direction. These characteristics can have a strong influence on the structural response and are usually modeled separately and then added to a site-based stochastic ground motion simulation. 

Very-Long-Period Seismicity at Active Volcanoes Source Mechanisms, Fig. 3 Example of force couples representative of slip on a fault. For simplicity, the third dimension is not shown. For x and y in the horizontal plane, this would represent a vertical strike-slip fault. Right-lateral slip on the fault normal to the y direction. 

If a rock is sufficiently stressed, the yield point will eventually be reached. If a brittle failure is initiated a plane of failure will develop which we describe as a fault. Figure 5.6 shows the terminology used to describe normal, reverse and wrench faults. 

If the original field development plan was not based on a 3-D seismic survey (which would be a commonly used tool for new fields nowadays), then it would now be normal practice to shoot a 3-D survey for development purposes. The survey would help to provide definition of the reservoir structure and continuity (faulting and the extension of reservoir sands), which is used to better locate the development wells. In some cases time-lapse 3-D seismic 4D surveys carried out a number of years apart, see Section 2) is used to track the displacement of fluids in the reservoir. 

Other considerations for fault tree constmction are (/) assume that faults propagate through normally operating equipment. Never assume that a fault is stopped by the miraculous failure of another piece of equipment. (2) Gates are coimected through labeled fault events. The output from one gate is never coimected directly into another. 

The impact of a knowledge-based application may appear in many ways improved competitive position, quality improvement, improvement in efficiency, cost reduction, and reduction in downtime, to name a few. Some of these benefits may be hard to quantify others may not be quantifiable at all. For example, the actual benefit derived from a diagnostic advisory system may not be apparent if the process behaves normally. To quantify the benefits, a careful post-audit may have to be done, taking into account the number of faults averted, and comparing the frequency of faults before and after implementation. 

Plausibility Analysis A comparison of values for process variables that allows faults in the measurement channels of the safety system to be recognized while the process is still in its normal operating range. 

These are conditions in which overheating of the machine may not trace back to its own thermal curves as in the first case. The temperature rise may now be adiabatic (linear) and not exponential and hence rapid. Now a normal thermal protection device may not be able to respond as in the previous case. Some conditions causing overheating may not necessarily be fault conditions. Nevertheless, they may require fast tripping, and hence are classilled in this category for more clarity. Such conditions may be one or more of the following ... 

A fault current on a power system is normally asymmetrical as discussed next, and is composed of a symmetrical a.c. component /sar.m.s.) nd an asymmetrical sub-transient d.c. component (Figure 14.5). The forces arising out of /jc aie referred to as electromagnetic and... 

Normally only a 1-second system is in use. The 3-second system is severe, for which protective devices in certain ratings may not be possible or may become prohibitively costlier to prvivluce. The 3-sceond system may. however, be used for a generator circuit to protect the generating. source from a fallout on a fault elsewhere in the system. 

For a switching device (which has not been previously tested for a short-circuit test). This should be closed and held in the normal service position. The test voltage (that would generate the required level of fault current) may be applied on one set of terminals, the other terminals being shorted. The test may be continued until the short-circuit device operates to clear the fault, but in no case for less than 10 cycles. In LT assemblies the point where the short-circuit is created should be 2 0.4 m from the nearest point of supply. 

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