The equipment in this lab offers approaches to researchers from a wide range of disciplines including geosciences, petroleum engineering, mechanical engineering, and civil engineering.
Determinations of earthquake physics (fault behavior) at conditions relevant for earthquake nucleation and propagation, the creation of fractures and determination of their mechanical parameters, the characterization of deformation and measurement of rock properties at shallow crustal conditions.
Equipment: Double Torsion Fracture Mechanics Testing Apparatus, Bruker Tribometer System (with environmental condition chambers) and Profilometer
Dr. Brett Carpenter
Assistant Professor
Phone: 405-325-3253
Email: brett.carpenter@ou.edu
