Stress evolution and fault interactions before and after the 2008 Great Wenchuan earthquake

Tectonophysics

Volumn 491, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 127-140

  Luo, Gang ^a,b   Liu, Mian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Coulomb stress; Fault interaction; Finite element modeling; Viscoelastoplastic; Wenchuan earthquake

Indexed keywords

BEFORE AND AFTER; COULOMB STRESS; EARTHQUAKE RISK; FAULT INTERACTIONS; FAULT SLIP; FINITE ELEMENT MODELING; KINEMATIC MODEL; LOADING RATE; MECHANICAL INTERACTIONS; SICHUAN PROVINCE; STRESS CHANGES; STRESS EVOLUTION; STRESS PERTURBATIONS; STRESS RELEASE; WENCHUAN EARTHQUAKE; XIANSHUIHE FAULT;

EARTHQUAKES; KINEMATICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

STRESS ANALYSIS;

COSEISMIC PROCESS; COULOMB CRITERION; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; ELASTOPLASTICITY; FAULT SLIP; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; SICHUAN EARTHQUAKE 2008; STRESS CHANGE; VISCOELASTICITY;

CHINA; LONGMEN MOUNTAINS;

EID: 77955422769     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2009.12.019     Document Type: Article

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