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	CONTENTS	6
	PREFACE	10
	1 Seismic Mechanics and Earthquakes	12
	THE SCALING OF GEOLOGICAL FAULTS	14
	EFFECTS OF NONLINEAR WEAKENING ON EARTHQUAKE SOURCE SCALINGS	20
	SEISMIC ENERGY RADIATION FROM DYNAMIC FAULTING	28
	DAMAGE RHEOLOGY MODEL AND DECAY LAW OF AFTERSHOCK ACTIVITY	34
	SPECTRAL ELEMENT SIMULATION OF RUPTURE DYNAMICS	44
	NON-LINEAR SLIP-WEAKENING IN A ROTARY GOUGE FRICTION EXPERIMENT	54
	DOES ELASTIC REBOUND THEORY APPLY TO SEISMIC FAULTS?	62
	CORRELATIONS OF STRESS DISTRIBUTIONS ALONG THE FAULT: FROM LABORATORY FRACTURE ROUGHNESS TO FAULT ASPERITY SQUEEZE	68
	DETACHMENT WAVES AND THE ONSET OF FRICTIONAL SLIP	76
	CRACK-LIKE AND PULSE-LIKE DYNAMIC FRICTIONAL SLIDING	82
	2 Structural Failure and Acoustic Emission	88
	IDENTIFICATION OF MICROCRACKING PROCESS IN FRACTURE PROCESS ZONE BY AE	90
	CONSEQUENCES OF ACOUSTIC EMISSION ON CRACK SPEED AND ROUGHNESS EXPONENT IN BRITTLE DYNAMIC FRACTURE	100
	FAILURE TIME, CRITICAL BEHAVIOUR AND ACTIVATION PROCESSES IN CRACK FORMATION	106
	RESPONSE OF FRACTURE NUCLEATION SITE TO WEAK MECHANICAL PULSES	114
	FRACTURE IN TWO DIMENSIONS (IN PAPER): ACOUSTIC EMISSION STUDIES AND THEORETICAL LESSONS	120
	MICROMECHANICS OF CORROSION CRACKING IN REINFORCED CONCRETE BY AE	130
	DAMAGE MECHANICS OF CARBONATED CONCRETE BY AE RATE-PROCESS ANALYSIS	140
	BRAZILIAN TEST OF CONCRETE EVALUATED BY AE	150
	EVOLUTION OF DAMAGE ACCUMULATION IN LOW-CARBON STEEL IN TENSION CONDITION	160
	FATIGUE PERFORMANCE OF SANDWICH COMPOSITES	166
	ON-PROCESS MONITORING OF CERAMICS AND CERAMIC COATINGS BY LASER AE	174
	FRACTURING, ACOUSTIC EMISSION, AND NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF GRANITE UNDER MODE II LOADING	182
	DAMAGE QUANTIFICATION FOR CONCRETE STRUCTURES BY IMPROVED b-VALUE ANALYSIS OF AE	192
	STRUCTURAL MONITORING AND LIFE-TIME ASSESSMENT OF MEDIEVAL TOWERS	202
	Author Index	212
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