Nadia Lapusta
Lawrence A. Hanson, Jr., Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Geophysics
Dipl., Kiev State University, 1994; M.S., Harvard University, 1996; Ph.D., 2001. Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Caltech, 2002-03; Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Geophysics, 2003-08; Associate Professor, 2008-10; Professor, 2010-19; Hanson Professor, 2019-.
Research Overview
Mechanics and physics of earthquakes and aseismic slip, computational modeling, fracture and frictional processes.
Publications
- Fang, Jiaqi;Gurnis, Michael et al. (2024) Dynamic Emergence of Plate Motions and Great Megathrust Earthquakes Across Length and Time ScalesGeophysical Research Letters
- Lambert, Valère;Lapusta, Nadia (2023) Absolute stress levels in models of low-heat faults: Links to geophysical observables and differences for crack-like ruptures and self-healing pulsesEarth and Planetary Science Letters
- Li, Jiaxuan;Kim, Taeho et al. (2023) The break of earthquake asperities imaged by distributed acoustic sensingNature
- Erickson, Brittany A.;Jiang, Junle et al. (2023) Incorporating Full Elastodynamic Effects and Dipping Fault Geometries in Community Code Verification Exercises for Simulations of Earthquake Sequences and Aseismic Slip (SEAS)Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America
- Lattanzi, A.;Rubino, V. et al. (2023) Uncertainty Analysis of Dynamic Rupture Measurements Obtained Through Ultrahigh-Speed Digital Image CorrelationExperimental Mechanics
- Heimisson, Elías Rafn;Liu, Shengduo et al. (2022) A Spectral Boundary-Integral Method for Faults and Fractures in a Poroelastic Solid: Simulations of a Rate-and-State Fault With Dilatancy, Compaction, and Fluid InjectionJournal of Geophysical Research. Solid Earth
- Rubino, V.;Lapusta, N. et al. (2022) Intermittent lab earthquakes in dynamically weakening fault gougeNature
- Dal Zilio, Luca;Lapusta, Nadia et al. (2022) Subduction earthquake sequences in a non-linear visco-elasto-plastic megathrustGeophysical Journal International
- Jiang, Junle;Erickson, Brittany A. et al. (2022) Community-Driven Code Comparisons for Three-Dimensional Dynamic Modeling of Sequences of Earthquakes and Aseismic SlipJournal of Geophysical Research. Solid Earth
- Tal, Yuval;Rubino, Vito et al. (2022) Dynamics and Near-Field Surface Motions of Transitioned Supershear Laboratory Earthquakes in Thrust FaultsJournal of Geophysical Research. Solid Earth
Related Courses
2023-24
Ae/AM/CE/ME 102 abc – Mechanics of Structures and Solids
Ae/Ge/ME 160 ab – Continuum Mechanics of Fluids and Solids
ME/CE/Ge 174 – Mechanics of Rocks