Frictional Behavior of Granular Fault Zones: Hysteresis in the Friction vs Velocity Curves Leads to Stick-Slip, Despite Velocity-Strengthening.

Einat Aharonov1, Pritom SARMA1, Stanislav Parez2 and Renaud Toussaint3, (1)Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel, (2)Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Department of Molecular and Mesoscopic Modelling, Institute of Chemical Process Fundamentals, Prague, Czech Republic, (3)ITES, University of Strasbourg CNRS, Strasbourg, France