Abstract
This paper firstly reviews the relevant research activities on the finite element modeling of interacting fault systems, including the related finite element commercial software and mesh generation, and then presents our long term and on-going efforts towards the integrated finite element software platform for integrating our finite element software with the related digital image information of the Earth to simulate the dynamics of interacting fault systems, which includes the interface and module construction for the geometrical modeling (i.e. fault model construction) with the related available observation data, mesh generation, finite element modeling and result visualization. Finally, a numerical simulation of the Southern California interacting fault system is presented to demonstrate its capability and usefulness.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 106-121 |
| Number of pages | 16 |
| Journal | Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors |
| Volume | 163 |
| Issue number | 1-4 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 15 Aug 2007 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Support is gratefully acknowledged by Australian Research Council, the Australian Computational Earth Systems Simulator Major National Research Facility (ACcESS MNRF), the Queensland State government, The University of Queensland, and SGI. The authors are grateful to Drs Yucang Wang and Louise Kettle of The University of Queensland for the helpful discussions, and to Professor J. Rundle from University of California at Davis for providing the data for the South California fault system used in this paper.
Keywords
- Crustal dynamics
- Fault
- Finite element
- Frictional contact
- Geometrical modeling
- Interacting fault system
- South California Fault
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Geophysics
- Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)
- Space and Planetary Science