Saturday, September 23, 2006
Readings
The readings need to be viewed with Acrobat -- they are not corrupt.
Anyway, I will be posting a new tarball this week with some additional and some deleted articles.
Reading for this Monday September 25 is Greenberg et al. Icarus 1978, and I'll do a simple lecture on some aspects of constitutive models and basic elastic theory.
Then we get down to nuts & bolts for a while on rock strength and failure mechanics. Readings for Monday October 2 are, in preferred order:
Atkinson 1987
Costin 1987
(optional) Weibull 1951
Grady and Kipp 1987
Collins et al. 2004
Some of Atkinson and Costin may be a bit beyond your familiarity but do the best you can. Those who cannot attend October 2 need to do these readings. Also, if you have zero background in the basics of stress-strain relationships, and terminology such as viscosity and strain rate, get thee to a textbook such as Turcotte and Schubert since we will be discussing this in class.
October 9 is cancelled, so the next class after that will be Friday October 20, for which we shall begin the topic of shocks and equations of state ("Melosh land").
After that we have the toolkit to start taking meaningful looks at the topical aspects of this course: volcanos, craters, experimental results, flying microbes...
Anyway, I will be posting a new tarball this week with some additional and some deleted articles.
Reading for this Monday September 25 is Greenberg et al. Icarus 1978, and I'll do a simple lecture on some aspects of constitutive models and basic elastic theory.
Then we get down to nuts & bolts for a while on rock strength and failure mechanics. Readings for Monday October 2 are, in preferred order:
Atkinson 1987
Costin 1987
(optional) Weibull 1951
Grady and Kipp 1987
Collins et al. 2004
Some of Atkinson and Costin may be a bit beyond your familiarity but do the best you can. Those who cannot attend October 2 need to do these readings. Also, if you have zero background in the basics of stress-strain relationships, and terminology such as viscosity and strain rate, get thee to a textbook such as Turcotte and Schubert since we will be discussing this in class.
October 9 is cancelled, so the next class after that will be Friday October 20, for which we shall begin the topic of shocks and equations of state ("Melosh land").
After that we have the toolkit to start taking meaningful looks at the topical aspects of this course: volcanos, craters, experimental results, flying microbes...
