Finite-element modeling of multibody contact and its application to active faults

Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience

Volumn 14, Issue 6-7, 2002, Pages 431-450

  Xing, H L ^a   Makinouchi, A ^a  

^a INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

Author keywords

Active faults; Earthquake; Finite element method; Multibody contact; Nonlinear frictional contact; Parallel sparse solver

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTHQUAKES; FRICTION; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; ROCK MECHANICS; SEARCH ENGINES;

ACTIVE FAULTS; CONTACT SEARCH ALGORITHM; MULTIBODY CONTACTS; NONLINEAR FRICTIONAL CONTACT; PARALLEL SPARSE SOLVER; STICK-SLIP FRICTIONAL INSTABILITY;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 0036564281     PISSN: 15320626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpe.623     Document Type: Article

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