The automation of pre-launch diagnostics for launch vehicles offers three potential benefits: improving safety, reducing cost, and reducing launch delays. The Ares I-X Ground Diagnostic Prototype demonstrated anomaly detection, fault detection, fault isolation, and diagnostics for the Ares I-X first-stage Thrust Vector Control and for the associated ground hydraulics while the vehicle was in th...

A prominent west-dipping reflection that can be traced in seismic-reflection profiles over an area of 7000 km beneath the Sevier Desert basin of west-central Utah is generally referred to as the Sevier Desert detacbment and is widely regarded as one of tbe best examples of an upper-crustal low-angle normal fault. The absence of evidence for fault-related deformation in drill cuttings and core f...

[1] The Chinese mainland features widespread active faults and intensive seismic activity; both can be described in terms of slip rates on these faults. Previous studies of fault slip rates in mainland China have focused on individual faults or fault segments, and large discrepancies exist among results derived from different methods. Here we derive a self‐consistent estimate of the slip rates ...

The Bitlis-Zagros Fold-Thrust Belt is one of the world?s largest deformation zones, extending from Eastern Mediterranean in southern Turkey to south Iran. This zone partitioned between different structures; however, little known about relative activities these structures and their effects on topography. An area located northern part Bitlis- Zagros Belt, just Anatolian Plateau was studied detail...

A variety of thin-skinned fold-and-thrust belts are associated with multiple décollements, which have low frictional basal and intermediate décollements related to mechanical stratigraphy or overpressure conditions. The present study considers six ternary series numerical discrete element (DE) models simulate explore the effects varied décollement layers, number cover sequences thickness in str...

SUMMARY The Kepingtag (Kalpin) fold-and-thrust belt of the southern Chinese Tian Shan is characterized by active shortening and intense seismic activity. Geological cross-sections reflection profiles suggest thin-skinned, northward-dipping thrust sheets detached in an Upper Cambrian décollement. 2020 January 19 Mw 6.0 Jiashi earthquake provides opportunity to investigate how coseismic deformati...

Abstract Although the Greater Caucasus Mountains have played a central role in absorbing late Cenozoic convergence between Arabian and Eurasian plates, orogenic architecture ways which it accommodates modern shortening remain debated. Here, we addressed this problem using geologic mapping along two transects across southern half of western to reveal suite regionally coherent stratigraphic packa...

Submarine channel systems play a crucial role in governing the delivery of sediments and pollutants such as plastics from shelf edge to deep water. Understanding their distribution space time is important for constraining locus, magnitude, characteristics deep-water sedimentation predicting stratigraphic architectures depositional facies. Using three-dimensional seismic reflection data covering...

We use a two-dimensional plane strain dynamic rupture model with strongly rate-weakening friction and off-fault Drucker-Prager plasticity to model damage zones associated with buried second-order thrust faults observed in the SSC reservoir. The modeling of ruptures propagating as self-sustaining pulses is performed in the framework of continuum plasticity where the plasticity formulation includ...