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Publications
Lapusta, N., J. R. Rice, Y. Ben-Zion, and G. Zheng, Elastodynamic analysis for slow tectonic loading with spontaneous rupture episodes on faults with rate- and state-dependent friction, J. Geophys. Res. 105, 23765-23789, 2000.. [pdf]
Rice, J. R., N. Lapusta, and K. Ranjith, Rate and state dependent friction and the stability of sliding between elastically deformable solids, J. Mech. Phys. Solids, 49, 1865-1898, 2001.. [pdf]
Lapusta, N. and J. R. Rice, Nucleation and early seismic propagation of small and large events in a crustal earthquake model, J. Geophys. Res. 108, doi:10.1029/2001JB000793, 2003.. [pdf]
Day, S. M., L. A. Dalguer, N. Lapusta, and Y. Liu, Comparison of finite difference and boundary integral solutions to spontaneous rupture, J. Geophys. Res. 108, doi: 10.1029/2001JB000793, 2005.. [pdf]
Lu, X., N. Lapusta, and A. J. Rosakis, Pulse-like and crack-like ruptures in experiments mimicking crustal earthquakes, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 104, 18931-18936, 2007.. [pdf]
Liu, Y., and N. Lapusta, Transition of mode II cracks from sub-Rayleigh to intersonic speeds in the presence of favorable heterogeneity, J. Mech. Phys. Solids, 56, 25-50, 2008.. [pdf]
Kaneko, Y., N. Lapusta, and J. P. Ampuero, Spectral-element modeling of spontaneous earthquake rupture on rate and state faults: Effect of velocity-strengthening friction at shallow depths, in press, J. Geophys. Res., 2008.. [pdf]
Kaneko, Y. and N. Lapusta, Variability of earthquake nucleation in continuum models of rate-and-state faults and implications for aftershock rates, accepted for publication, J. Geophys. Res., 2008.. [pdf]
Lu, X., N. Lapusta, and A. J. Rosakis, Analysis of supershear transition regimes in rupture experiments: the effect of nucleation conditions and friction parameters, accepted with minor revision, Geophys. J. Int., 2008.. [pdf]
Chen, T. and N. Lapusta, Rate and state friction laws can explain scaling of small repeating earthquakes, accepted with minor revision, J. Geophys. Res., 2008.. [pdf]
Harris, R. A., M. Barall, R. Archuleta, E. Dunham, B. Aagaard, J.-P. Ampuero, D. J. Andrews, H. Bhat, V. Cruz-Atienza, L. Dalguer, S. Day, B. Duan, G. Ely, Y. Kaneko, Y. Kase, N. Lapusta, Y. Liu, S. Ma, D. Oglesby, K. Olsen, A. Pitarka, S. Song, E. Templeton, The SCEC/USGS dynamic earthquake rupture code validation exercise, accepted with minor revision, Seismol. Res. Lett., 2008.. [pdf]
Lapusta, N., and Y. Liu, 3D boundary-integral modeling of spontaneous earthquake sequences and aseismic slip, accepted with minor revision, J. Geophys. Res., 2008.. [pdf]
Lu, X., A. J. Rosakis, and N. Lapusta, Rupture modes in laboratory earthquakes: effect of seismic ratio and nucleation conditions, to be submitted to J. Geophys. Res., 2008.. [pdf]
Lapusta, N. and J. R. Rice, Low-stress, low-heat operation of statically strong but dynamically weak faults, to be submitted to J. Geophys. Res., 2008.. [pdf]
Liu, Y., and N. Lapusta, Supershear rupture in 3D simulations of earthquake sequences and aseismic slip: effect of rheological boundaries and weaker patches, to be submitted to Geophys. J. Int., 2008.. [pdf]
Kaneko, Y., J.-P. Avouac, and N. Lapusta, Influence of heterogeneous coupling on the spatial pattern and recurrence of seismic ruptures, manuscript in preparation, 2008.. [pdf]
Kaneko, Y. and N. Lapusta, Supershear transition in 3D simulations of spontaneous dynamic rupture on strike-slip faults: effect of the free surface, to be submitted to Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 2008.. [pdf]