Quasi-static analysis of strike fault growth in layered media

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 173, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 309-314

  Kame, Nobuki ^a   Saito, Shuji ^a   Oguni, Kenji ^b  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dynamics and mechanics of faulting; Earthquake dynamics; Fracture and faults; Mechanics, theory and modelling; Numerical solutions

Indexed keywords

CRACK; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; EARTHQUAKE; ELASTIC PROPERTY; FAULTING; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; NUMERICAL METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; STRESS; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT;

EID: 41249095325     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2008.03728.x     Document Type: Article

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