Generalization of a two-dimensional burridge-knopoff model of earthquakes

Journal de Physique II

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 423-429

  Leung, Kwan Tai ^a,b   Müller, Judith ^a,b   Andersen, Jörgen Vitting ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Taiwan)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRACKS; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; FRACTURE MECHANICS; GEOLOGIC MODELS; SEISMOLOGY; STRAIN; TECTONICS;

HOOKE'S LAW; TWO DIMENSIONAL SPRING BLOCK MODEL;

EARTHQUAKES;

EID: 0031096805     PISSN: 11554312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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