Excitable frictional interfaces (smooth or nonsmooth friction laws)


    Fronts and pulses in a chain of blocks sliding down a slope


  • J.E. Morales, G. James and A. Tonnelier, Traveling waves in a spring-block chain sliding down a slope, Phys. Rev. E 96, 012227 (2017).

    Original publication available at aps.org. Preprint available on HAL: pdf file.



    Solitary waves in the Burridge-Knopoff model with spinodal friction laws


  • J.E. Morales, G. James and A. Tonnelier, Solitary waves in the excitable Burridge-Knopoff model, Wave Motion 76 (2018), 103-121.

    Original publication available at www.sciencedirect.com. Preprint available on: HAL.