Micromechanical modelling of fault gouge dynamics: towards an improved fault constitutive relation

澳大利亚地质和其他颗粒介质相关问题的人力和经济成本是惊人的。 其中包括地质灾害（例如山泥倾泻及地震;纽卡斯尔地震造成了大约40亿美元的损失和13人的生命），以及澳大利亚主要出口行业普遍存在的微粒过程（例如，煤炭出口价值93亿美元，铁矿石38亿美元，小麦34亿美元），澳大利亚的810，2000公里的颗粒铺设道路网络，每天的维护费用约为550万美元。 该计划将提供新的知识和先进的分析和预测建模工具，能够推动地震预测研究和工业创新的突破。

The human and economic costs of geological and other particulate media related problems in Australia are staggering. These include geological hazards (e.g. landslides and earthquakes; the Newcastle earthquake cost around $4 billion and 13 lives), to particulate processes prevalent in Australia's major export industries (e.g. coal export valued at $9.3 billion, iron ore at $3.8 billion, and wheat at $3.4 billion), to Australia's 810,000 km granular paved road network that costs around $5.5 million per day to maintain. The program will deliver new knowledge and advanced analytical and predictive modelling tools capable of fuelling breakthroughs in earthquake forecasting research and industrial innovations.