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Hiroyuki Noda
Post Doctoral Scholar in Geophysics
Ph.D., 2008, Geophysics, Kiyoto University, Japan

California Institute of Technology
Seismological Laboratory
1200 E. California Blvd., MS 252-21
So. Mudd Building, Rm 266
Pasadena, CA 91125

Phone: (626) 395-6950
Fax: (626) 564-0715
Email: hnoda@gps.caltech.edu
web page: http://www.gps.caltech.edu/people/hnoda/profile

Research
My primary interest is the mechanical property of a fault and its significance in the earthquake generation process. An active fault experiences vastly wide range of slip rates, and recent works have revealed that the fault frictional strength varies dramatically at seismically high slip rates. I'm very interested in the physical processes operating on a fault surface under such conditions, in the formulation of a fault constitutive law based on the physical understandings, and in how it affects the occurrence of earthquakes in a simulation.

I will be working with Prof. Nadia Lapusta numerically and theoretically on the rupture nucleation and propagation process with a realistic fault constitutive law. Also, I'm working on the experimental and theoretical construction of the (brittle or ductile) constitutive law of a fault in collaboration with Hiroshima University and Chiba University in Japan.

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