Construction of an intraplate fault system model of South Australia, and simulation tool for the iSERVO institute seed project

H. L. Xing; P. Mora

doi:10.1007/s00024-006-0127-x

Construction of an intraplate fault system model of South Australia, and simulation tool for the iSERVO institute seed project

H. L. Xing^*, P. Mora

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Abstract

To foster ongoing international cooperation beyond ACES (APEC Cooperation for Earthquake Simulation) on the simulation of solid earth phenomena, agreement was reached to work towards establishment of a frontier international research institute for simulating the solid earth: iSERVO = International Solid Earth Research Virtual Observatory institute (http://www.iservo.edu.au). This paper outlines a key Australian contribution towards the iSERVO institute seed project, this is the construction of: (1) a typical intraplate fault system model using practical fault system data of South Australia (i.e., SA interacting fault model), which includes data management and editing, geometrical modeling and mesh generation; and (2) a finite-element based software tool, which is built on our long-term and ongoing effort to develop the R-minimum strategy based finite-element computational algorithm and software tool for modelling three-dimensional nonlinear frictional contact behavior between multiple deformable bodies with the arbitrarily-shaped contact element strategy. A numerical simulation of the SA fault system is carried out using this software tool to demonstrate its capability and our efforts towards seeding the iSERVO Institute.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2297-2316
Number of pages	20
Journal	Pure and Applied Geophysics
Volume	163
Issue number	11-12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s00024-006-0127-x
State	Published - Dec 2006
Externally published	Yes

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Funding Information:
Support is gratefully acknowledged by the Australian Computational Earth Systems Simulator Major National Research Facility (ACcESS MNRF), the Queensland State Government, The University of Queensland, and SGI. Computations were made using the ACcESS MNRF supercomputer – a 208 processor 1.1 TFlops SGI Altix 3700—which was funded by the Queensland State Government Smart State Research Facility Fund and SGI. The authors are grateful to Professor M. Sandiford from Melbourne University for providing the data for the South Australia Fault system used in this paper, to Dr. Hori of JAMSTEC and another reviewer for their advice/comments that allowed this paper to be improved.

Keywords

Crustal dynamics
Finite-elemen tmethod
International cooperation
Intraplate fault system
South Australian fault model
iSERVO

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Geophysics
Geochemistry and Petrology

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Construction of an intraplate fault system model of South Australia, and simulation tool for the iSERVO institute seed project

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