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Franciscus M Aben
Geophysicist/rock physicist
Researcher at TNO Applied Geosciences Welcome to my website. I am a rock physicist with a particular interest in induced seismicity, fault mechanics, and earthquake rupture processes. Since October 2021 I am part of the geomechanics team at TNO (Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research). Here you can find my publications.
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Videos
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Laboratory seismology:
Controlled shear rupture in a Lanhelin granite sample (100 mm length by 40 mm diameter) over the course of around 10 hours yields a lot of acoustic emissions (i.e., nano-seismic events). The source locations of these AEs are shown as black points within this slice perpendicular to the failure zone. We used the information hidden in the arrival times of the AE waves in conjunction with ultrasonic surveys (i.e., seismic surveys) to obtain a P-wave tomography, shown by the colours. We thus see the rupture propagating, whilst creating a zone of reduced P-wave velocity due to off-fault fracture damage. Stress-strain curve corresponds to time interval shown. See Aben et al., 2019 GRL. |
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Pulverised rock: A public outreach video that I produced during my PhD time in Grenoble, as part of the Marie Curie ITN FlowTrans. It tells the story of pulverised fault damage zone rock, and what we may learn from them. |
Peer-reviewed publications
- Ostermeijer, G.A., Aben, F.M., Mitchell, T.M., Rockwell, T.K., Rempe, M, Farrington, K. (2022)
Evolution of co-seismic off-fault damage towards pulverisation.
Earth and Planetary Science Letters 579, 117353 - Aben, F.M., and Brantut, N. (2021)
Dilatancy stabilises shear failure in rock.
Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 574, 117174
[get arXiv preprint] - Brantut, N., and Aben, F.M. (2021)
Fluid pressure heterogeneity during fluid flow in rocks: New laboratory measurement device and method.
Geophysical Journal International, 225(2), 968–983 - Aben, F.M., Brantut, N., Mitchell, T.M. (2020)
Off‐fault damage characterisation during and after experimental quasi‐static and dynamic rupture in crustal rock from laboratory P‐wave tomography and microstructures.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 125(8)
[Supplementary Information] - Aben, F.M., Doan, M.-L., Mitchell, T.M. (2020)
Variation of hydraulic properties due to dynamic fracture damage: Implications for fault zones
Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 125(4)
[Supplementary Information] - Ostermijer, G.A., Mitchell, T.M., Aben, F.M., Dorsey, M.T, Browning, J., Rockwell, T.K., Fletcher, J.M., Ostermeijer, F. (2020)
Damage zone heterogeneity on seismogenic faults in crystalline rock; a field study of the Borrego Fault, Baja California
Journal of Structural Geology, 137, 104016 - Aben, F.M., Brantut, N, Mitchell, T.M., David, E. (2019)
Rupture energetics in crustal rock from laboratory-scale seismic tomography
Geophysical Research Letters, 46(13), 7337-7344
[Supplementary Information] - Aben, F.M., Doan, M.-L., Gratier, J.-P., Renard, F. (2017)
Experimental postseismic recovery of fractured rocks assisted by calcite sealing
Geophysical Research Letters, 44(14), 7228-7238 - Aben, F.M., Doan, M.-L., Gratier, J.-P., Renard, F. (2017)
High strain rate deformation of porous sandstone and the asymmetry of earthquake damage in shallow fault zones
Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 463, 81-91 - Fondriest, M., Doan, M.-L., Aben, F.M., Fusseis, F., Mitchell, T.M., Voorn, M., Secco, M., Di Toro, G., (2017)
Static versus dynamic fracturing in shallow carbonate fault zones
Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 461 - Aben, F.M., Doan, M.-L., Gratier, J.-P. and Renard, F. (2017)
Coseismic damage generation and pulverization in fault zones: insights from dynamic Split-Hopkinson Pressure Bar experiments
In: M.Y. Thomas, T.M. Mitchell, and H.S. Bhat (eds.), Fault Zone Dynamic Processes: Evolution of Fault Properties During Seismic Rupture, Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. - Aben, F.M., Doan, M.-L., Mitchell, T.M., Toussaint, R., Reuschle, T., Fondriest, M., Gratier, J.-P., Renard, F. (2016)
Dynamic fracturing by successive coseismic loadings leads to pulverization in active fault zones
Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 121 - Aben, F.M., Dekkers, M.J., Bakker, R.R., van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., Zachariasse, W.J., Tate, G.W., McQuarrie, N., Harris, R., Duffy, B. (2014)
Untangling inconsistent magnetic polarity records through an integrated rock magnetic analysis: A case study on Neogene sections in East Timor
Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 15(6), 2531-2554
Svalbard snowscooter adventure
