Obiettivo Southern Europe and Turkey lie within the highest seismic risk areas in the world. Understanding the physico-chemical processes controlling earthquake generation is essential in seismic hazard assessment. Destructive earthquakes nucleate at depth (10-15 km), therefore monitoring active faults at the Earth’s surface, or interpreting seismic waves, yields only limited information on earthquake mechanics. We propose to investigate earthquake processes by: 1) installing a new world class high velocity rock friction apparatus to perform experiments under deformation conditions typical of earthquakes; 2) studying fossil seismic sources now exhumed at the Earth's surface; 3) analyzing natural and experimental fault rock materials using a novel multidisciplinary approach involving state of the art techniques in microstructural analysis, mineralogy and petrology; 4) producing new theoretical earthquake models calibrated (and tightly constrained) by field observations, mechanical data from rock-friction experiments and analyses of natural and experimental fault rocks. The integration of such an original and complementary data set shall provide an unprecedented insight into the mechanics of seismic faulting. The installation of the new dedicated rock friction apparatus will allow the European Union to become a key world player competing at the top scientific level in the study of earthquake mechanics. The proposed study has additional implications for understanding other friction-controlled processes important in Earth sciences and hazard mitigation (e.g. rock landslides). Friction also has broad applications in the industry, including innovative but poorly understood production processes. Our experimental results will help to improve industrial milling techniques and investigate the mechanical-chemical transformations induced during milling. The latter is the basis of a new technique for the production of hydrocarbons and hydrogen from inorganic and organic materials. Campo scientifico natural scienceschemical sciencesorganic chemistryhydrocarbonsnatural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesgeologyseismologynatural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesgeologymineralogysocial sciencessociologygovernancecrisis managementseismic risk managementnatural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesgeologypetrology Parole chiave Comminution Earthquake Friction Industrial Applications Landslides Milling Tribochemistry Tribology Programma(i) FP7-IDEAS-ERC - Specific programme: "Ideas" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013) Argomento(i) ERC-SG-PE8 - ERC Starting Grant - Products and process engineering Invito a presentare proposte ERC-2007-StG Vedi altri progetti per questo bando Meccanismo di finanziamento ERC-SG - ERC Starting Grant Istituzione ospitante ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA Contributo UE € 1 787 600,00 Indirizzo Via di Vigna Murata 605 00143 Roma Italia Mostra sulla mappa Regione Centro (IT) Lazio Roma Tipo di attività Research Organisations Ricercatore principale Giulio Di Toro (Dr.) Contatto amministrativo Sofia Mariano (Dr.) Collegamenti Contatta l’organizzazione Opens in new window Sito web Opens in new window Costo totale Nessun dato Beneficiari (2) Classifica in ordine alfabetico Classifica per Contributo UE Espandi tutto Riduci tutto ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA Italia Contributo UE € 1 787 600,00 Indirizzo Via di Vigna Murata 605 00143 Roma Mostra sulla mappa Regione Centro (IT) Lazio Roma Tipo di attività Research Organisations Ricercatore principale Giulio Di Toro (Dr.) Contatto amministrativo Sofia Mariano (Dr.) Collegamenti Contatta l’organizzazione Opens in new window Sito web Opens in new window Costo totale Nessun dato UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PADOVA Italia Contributo UE € 204 400,00 Indirizzo VIA 8 FEBBRAIO 2 35122 Padova Mostra sulla mappa Regione Nord-Est Veneto Padova Tipo di attività Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Contatto amministrativo Domenico Rio (Prof.) Collegamenti Contatta l’organizzazione Opens in new window Sito web Opens in new window Costo totale Nessun dato