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Nadia Lapusta

Postdoctoral Fellow
Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Harvard University

Working in the group of Professor James R. Rice


E-mail nlapusta@fas.harvard.edu


Recent work in PDF format:

Lapusta, N. and J. R. Rice, 2003
Nucleation and early seismic propagation of small and large events in a crustal earthquake model, Journal of Geophysical Research, 108(B4), cn:2205, doi:10.1029/2001JB000793, pp. ESE 8-1 to 8-18, April 2003 (2.7 MB).

Rice, J. R., N. Lapusta, and K. Ranjith, 2001
Rate and state dependent friction and the stability of sliding between elastically deformable solids, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 49, 1865-1898 (0.3 MB).

Ph.D. thesis, 2001
Elastodynamic analyses of sliding with rate and state friction (7.0 MB, 231 pages, formatted to be printed on both sides of a page).

Lapusta, N., J. R. Rice, Y. Ben-Zion, and G. Zheng, 2000
Elastodynamic analysis for slow tectonic loading with spontaneous rupture episodes on faults with rate- and state-dependent friction, Journal of Geophysical Research, 105, 23,765-23,789 (3.0 MB).