{"id":73,"date":"2018-07-23T19:17:14","date_gmt":"2018-07-23T19:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coquake.eu\/?page_id=73"},"modified":"2020-10-28T17:04:14","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T17:04:14","slug":"about-coquake","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/coquake.eu\/index.php\/about-coquake\/","title":{"rendered":"About CoQuake"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Earthquakes is a natural phenomenon that we cannot avoid.
CoQuake aims at controlling it.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Few words…<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"According to the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED), earthquakes are responsible for more than half of the total human losses due to natural disasters from 1994 to 2003. There is no doubt that earthquakes are lethal and costly. CoQuake proposes an alternative, ground-breaking approach for avoiding catastrophic earthquakes by inducing them at a lower energetic level. Earthquakes are a natural phenomenon that we cannot avoid, but \u2013for the first time\u2013 in CoQuake we will explore the possibility to control them, hence reducing the seismic risk, fatalities and economic cost. <\/span><\/p>\n

CoQuake goes beyond the state-of-the-art by proposing an innovative methodology for investigating the effect and the controllability of various stimulating techniques that can reactivate seismic faults. It involves large-scale, accurate simulations of fault systems based on constitutive laws derived from micromechanical, grain-by-grain simulations under Thermo-Hydro-Chemo-Mechanical couplings (THMC), which are not calibrated on the basis of ad-hoc empirical and inaccurate constitutive laws. A pioneer experimental research programme and the design and construction of a new apparatus of metric scale, will demonstrate CoQuake\u2019s proof-of-principle and it will help to explore the transition from aseismic to seismic slip. <\/span><\/p>\n

CoQuake is an interdisciplinary project as it takes knowledge from various fields of engineering, computational mechanics, geomechanics, mathematics and geophysics. CoQuake opens a new field and new line of research in earthquake mechanics and engineering, with a direct impact on humanity and science.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n

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Funding<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

CoQuake receives funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Unions Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 757848<\/a> Controlling earthQuakes).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Environment<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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CoQuake research takes place in GeM Laboratory<\/a> of the Ecole Centrale de Nantes<\/a>, which gathers nearly 230 people, including 75 researchers, approximately 120 PhD students and Post-Docs and 35 technical and administrative staff, who work in the areas of mechanics and physics of materials, structures and geomaterials, and their applications.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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