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When rocks spring back to their original shape after rupture the process is?

When rocks spring back to their original shape after rupture the process is?

Figure 12.3 Elastic deformation, rupture, and elastic rebound. Top: Stress applied to a rock causes it to deform by stretching. When the stress becomes too much for the rock, it ruptures, forming a fault. The rock snaps back to its original shape in a process called elastic rebound.

When the rocks break and spring back to their normal position it is called?

Slippage allows the deformed (strained) rocks to “snap back” to its original, stress-free, shape. The spring back was termed ELASTIC REBOUND (elastic rebound).

When you stretch a rubber band What type of energy does it contain?

elastic potential energy
You input potential (stored) energy into the rubber band system when you stretched the rubber band back. Because it is an elastic system, this kind of potential energy is specifically called elastic potential energy.

What is the elastic potential energy stored in a spring?

Elastic potential energy is the potential energy stored by stretching or compressing an elastic object by an external force such as the stretching of a spring. It is equal to the work done to stretch the spring which depends on the spring constant k and the distance stretched.

What is meant by elastic rebound?

Elastic rebound is what happens to the crustal material on either side of a fault during an earthquake. The rock becomes distorted, or bent, but holds its position until the earthquake occurs, and the rock snaps back into an unstrained position, releasing energy that produces seismic waves.

How do you find the spring constant of a rubber band?

Spring constant of the rubber band is k=45.0N/m.

When you stretch a rubber band What is the energy generated and lost?

Answer: It gains elastic potential energy, while the object that stretched it losses energy. Band is released from the stretched position: it losses its stored elastic potential energy.

What is meant by elastic rebound in rocks?

Elastic rebound is what happens to the crustal material on either side of a fault during an earthquake. The idea is that a fault is stuck until the strain accumulated in the rock on either side of the fault has overcome the friction making it stick.

What makes a material have a greater springback?

The stronger (higher tensile) a material is, the greater the springback will be. The sharper the radius is, the less springback there will be (up to a point). The wider the die opening is in air forming, the greater the springback, because of the larger radius.

When does a workpiece spring back to its original shape?

During air forming the workpiece springs back slightly when released from pressure, as it attempts to return to its original shape. The amount of springback that occurs is a property of the material and radius.

How is the spring constant related to the restoring force?

The good news it’s a simple law, describing a linear relationship and having the form of a basic straight-line equation. The formula for Hooke’s law specifically relates the change in extension of the spring, ​ x ​, to the restoring force, ​ F ​, generated in it: The extra term, ​ k ​, is the spring constant.

How does springback and springforward work in bottom bending?

In bottom bending, springforward forces the material back to the set angle that conforms to the die angle. In coining, the angles of the tools are both the same with no account given to springback, because, again, the springback is forced out of the workpiece (see Figures 6 and 7).