Nadia Lapusta
Lawrence A. Hanson, Jr., Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Geophysics; Graduate Option Representative for Applied Mechanics, Civil Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering
Research interests: fracture and frictional processes, computational mechanics, failure of geomaterials in the presence of fluids, physics of earthquakes, induced seismicity
Overview
Professor Lapusta studies friction and fracture phenomena on both fundamental and practical levels. Her work focuses on analytical and numerical modeling that incorporates and explains experimental findings. She has a special interest in failure of geomaterials in the presence of fluids, physics of earthquakes, and induced seismicity, where frictional faulting and cracking are key ingredients.
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- Fang, Jiaqi;Gurnis, Michael et al. (2024) Dynamic Emergence of Plate Motions and Great Megathrust Earthquakes Across Length and Time ScalesGeophysical Research Letters
- Lambert, Valère;Lapusta, Nadia (2023) Absolute stress levels in models of low-heat faults: Links to geophysical observables and differences for crack-like ruptures and self-healing pulsesEarth and Planetary Science Letters
- Li, Jiaxuan;Kim, Taeho et al. (2023) The break of earthquake asperities imaged by distributed acoustic sensingNature
- Erickson, Brittany A.;Jiang, Junle et al. (2023) Incorporating Full Elastodynamic Effects and Dipping Fault Geometries in Community Code Verification Exercises for Simulations of Earthquake Sequences and Aseismic Slip (SEAS)Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America
- Lattanzi, A.;Rubino, V. et al. (2023) Uncertainty Analysis of Dynamic Rupture Measurements Obtained Through Ultrahigh-Speed Digital Image CorrelationExperimental Mechanics
- Heimisson, Elías Rafn;Liu, Shengduo et al. (2022) A Spectral Boundary-Integral Method for Faults and Fractures in a Poroelastic Solid: Simulations of a Rate-and-State Fault With Dilatancy, Compaction, and Fluid InjectionJournal of Geophysical Research. Solid Earth
- Rubino, V.;Lapusta, N. et al. (2022) Intermittent lab earthquakes in dynamically weakening fault gougeNature
- Dal Zilio, Luca;Lapusta, Nadia et al. (2022) Subduction earthquake sequences in a non-linear visco-elasto-plastic megathrustGeophysical Journal International
- Jiang, Junle;Erickson, Brittany A. et al. (2022) Community-Driven Code Comparisons for Three-Dimensional Dynamic Modeling of Sequences of Earthquakes and Aseismic SlipJournal of Geophysical Research. Solid Earth
- Tal, Yuval;Rubino, Vito et al. (2022) Dynamics and Near-Field Surface Motions of Transitioned Supershear Laboratory Earthquakes in Thrust FaultsJournal of Geophysical Research. Solid Earth
Related Courses
2023-24
Ae/AM/CE/ME 102 abc – Mechanics of Structures and Solids
Ae/Ge/ME 160 ab – Continuum Mechanics of Fluids and Solids
ME/CE/Ge 174 – Mechanics of Rocks
2022-23
ME/Ge/Ae 266 ab – Fracture and Frictional Faulting
2021-22
Ae/Ge/ME 160 ab – Continuum Mechanics of Fluids and Solids
ME/Ge/Ae 266 ab – Dynamic Fracture and Frictional Faulting
2020-21
Ae/AM/CE/ME 102 abc – Mechanics of Structures and Solids
Ae/Ge/ME 160 ab – Continuum Mechanics of Fluids and Solids
ME/CE/Ge 174 – Mechanics of Rocks