@article{ref1,
title="Stabilizing stick-slip friction",
journal="Physical review letters",
year="2011",
author="Capozza, Rosario and Rubinstein, Shmuel M. and Barel, Itay and Urbakh, Michael and Fineberg, Jay",
volume="107",
number="2",
pages="024301-024301",
abstract="Even the most regular stick-slip frictional sliding is always stochastic, with irregularity in both the intervals between slip events and the sizes of the associated stress drops. Applying small-amplitude oscillations to the shear force, we show, experimentally and theoretically, that the stick-slip periods synchronize. We further show that this phase locking is related to the inhibition of slow rupture modes which forces a transition to fast rupture, providing a possible mechanism for observed remote triggering of earthquakes. Such manipulation of collective modes may be generally relevant to extended nonlinear systems driven near to criticality.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0031-9007",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}