The San Andreas Fault (SAF) is the Pacific-North American plate boundary, yet in southern California a significant portion of the relative plate motion is accommodated by the San Jacinto Fault (SJF). Here we investigate the initiation of the SJF and its interaction with the SAF in a threedimensional visco-elasto-plastic finite-element model. The model results show that the restraining bend of t...

[1] Pore pressure changes are rigorously included in Coulomb stress calculations for fault interaction studies. These are considered changes under undrained conditions for analyzing very short term postseismic response. The assumption that pore pressure is proportional to faultnormal stress leads to the widely used concept of an effective friction coefficient. We provide an exact expression for...

We present a detailed field structural survey of the area of interaction between the active NW-striking transform Husavik-Flatey Fault (HFF) and the N–S Theystareykir Fissure Swarm (TFS), in North Iceland, integrated by analog scaled models. Field data contribute to a better understanding of how transform faults work, at a much higher detail than classical marine geophysical studies. Analog exp...

The Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) is the most successful representative of an object-based distributed computing architecture. Although CORBA simplifies the implementation of complex, distributed systems significantly, the support of techniques for reliable, fault-tolerant software, such as group communication protocols or replication is very limited in the state-of-the-art ...

Literature review indicates that a large amount of failures are caused by abnormal wear of the diesel engine components. It is therefore essential to monitor the engine condition using the tribological information. Although the wear debris analysis has been proven to be effective for condition monitoring and fault diagnosis (CMFD) of diesel engines, limited work has been done to address the rem...

Oxygen greatly affects the mechanical properties of titanium. In addition, dislocations and twin boundaries influence the plastics deformation of hexagonal close-packed metals. As part of a systematic study of defects interactions in Ti, we investigate the interactions of oxygen with ð10 12Þ twin boundaries and ð10 10Þ prism plane stacking faults. The energetics of four interstitial sites in th...

Wireless Sensor Networks are infrastructures containing sensing, computing and communication elements that aim to give its controllers the ability to measure, collect and react to occurrences in the monitored environment.WSN focus on interaction with environment. Nothing is perfect in this universe. WSN may also be failure prone. In order to maintain the network quality of service, it is mandat...

In this article we describe the fault-tolerance architecture of the PerDiS platform. This architecture results from the work that was done in the rst six months at INESC with strong interaction with the other partners of the project (mainly INRIA-SOR and INRIA-SIRAC). We describe the overall fault-tolerance architecture and its integration within PerDiS, the interfaces and implementation provid...