Abstract:<p>Anisotropic phenomena have long been studied in the vicinity of seismic faults. It has for instance been shown that both in situ pore fluids and seismic mechanical waves travel at different velocities along various directions of a fault zone. Yet, while more and more complexity and disorder in seismic models are introduced to better understand earthquakes, frictional anisotropy is only rarely regarded. In many other domains than geophysics, however, such anisotropy in solid friction is believe… Show more
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