Your fault stability analysis might be lying to you
Your fault stability analysis might be lying to you
GEOPHYSICS
 May 12 2026    14:30 PM
 
 

The Mohr space represents stress states and, com­bined with fault strength criteria, is used to assess fault stability. It is simple, elegant, and widely accepted. It is also, when applied deterministically, rather misleading. Mohr circles are built on single best-estimate values for key geomechanical inputs, and they do not reflect the true variability and uncertainty...

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