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

在澳大利亚，地质和其他与颗粒介质相关的问题造成的人力和经济代价令人震惊。这包括地质灾害(例如，山体滑坡和地震；纽卡斯尔地震造成约40亿美元的损失和13人丧生)，到澳大利亚主要出口行业中普遍存在的颗粒物过程(例如，煤炭出口额为93亿美元，铁矿石出口额为38亿美元，小麦出口额为34亿美元)，再到澳大利亚810,000公里的颗粒状铺面公路网，每天的维护费用约为550万美元。该计划将提供新知识以及先进的分析和预测建模工具，能够推动地震预报研究和产业创新的突破。

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.