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Dr. Taka Kanaya

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Work B2|02 212
Schnittpahnstr. 9
64287 Darmstadt

  • The mechanics of earthquake faulting and brittle-ductile transition
  • Role of complex preexisting fracture distributions on fault nucleation dynamics
  • Sustainability geomechanics: fluid flow properties in fractured medium and their size dependence

Since 2024

Post-Doc in Engineering Geology, Institute of Applied Geosciences, TU Darmstadt

2021 until 2024

Postdoc at McGill University,: Seismological and numerical modeling study of induced seismicity in Western Canada

2018 until 2021

Postdoc at University of Maryland: Experimental study of the effect of dilatant hardening on fault dynamics

2018

PhD study at Brown University: Micromechanics of brittle and ductile faulting in porous granular rocks

  • Kanaya, T., Hirth, G., Brittle to semibrittle transition in quartz sandstone: Energetics, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 2018
  • Kanaya, T., Hirth, G., Role of Crack Interaction on Shear Localization in Porous Granular Rocks Deformed in the Brittle and Ductile Fields, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 2024