Earthquake Processes: Physical Modelling, Numerical Simulation and Data Analysis Part I

by Mitsuhiro Matsu'ura (Editor), Peter Mora (Editor), Andrea Donnellan (Editor), Xiang-chu Yin (Editor)

Overview

In the last decade of the 20th century, there has been great progress in the physics of earthquake generation; that is, the introduction of laboratory-based fault constitutive laws as a basic equation governing earthquake rupture, quantitative description of tectonic loading driven by plate motion, and a microscopic approach to study fault zone processes. The fault constitutive law plays the role of an interface between microscopic processes in fault zones and macroscopic processes of a fault system, and the plate motion connects diverse crustal activities with mantle dynamics. An ambitious challenge for us is to develop realistic computer simulation models for the complete earthquake process on the basis of microphysics in fault zones and macro-dynamics in the crust-mantle system. Recent advances in high performance computer technology and numerical simulation methodology are bringing this vision within reach. The book consists of two parts and presents a cross-section of cutting-edge research in the field of computational earthquake physics. Part I includes works on microphysics of rupture and fault constitutive laws, and dynamic rupture, wave propagation and strong ground motion. Part II covers earthquake cycles, crustal deformation, plate dynamics, and seismicity change and its physical interpretation. Topics covered in Part I range from the microscopic simulation and laboratory studies of rock fracture and the underlying mechanism for nucleation and catastrophic failure to the development of theoretical models of frictional behaviors of faults; as well as the simulation studies of dynamic rupture processes and seismic wave propagation in a 3-D heterogeneous medium, to the case studies of strong ground motions from the 1999 Chi-Chi earthquake and seismic hazard estimation for Cascadian subduction zone earthquakes.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783764369156
Publisher:	Birkh�user Basel
Publication date:	11/11/2002
Series:	Pageoph Topical Volumes
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2002
Pages:	264
Product dimensions:	6.69(w) x 9.61(h) x 0.20(d)

Table of Contents

A. Micro-physics of Rupture and Fault Constitutive Laws.- Simulation of the Micro-physics of Rocks Using LSMearth.- Damage Localization, Sensitivity of Energy Release and the Catastrophe Transition.- Experimental Study of the Process Zone, Nucleation Zone and Plastic Area of Earthquakes by the Shadow Optical Method of Caustics.- Simulation of the Influence of Rate-and State-dependent Friction on the Macroscopic Behavior of Complex Fault Zones with the Lattice Solid Model.- Finite Element Analysis of a Sandwich Friction Experiment Model of Rocks.- Thermal-mechanical Coupling in Shear Deformation of Viscoelastic Material as a Model of Frictional Constitutive Relations.- Slip-and Time-dependent Fault Constitutive Law and its Significance in Earthquake Generation Cycles.- B. Dynamic Rupture, Wave Propagation and Strong Ground Motion.- A Condition for Super-shear Rupture Propagation in a Heterogeneous Stress Field.- Simulation of the Transition of Earthquake Rupture from Quasi-static Growth to Dynamic Propagation.- Numerical Simulation of Fault Zone Guided Waves: Accuracy and 3-D Effects.- Regional Seismic Wavefield Computation on a 3-D Heterogeneous Earth Model by Means of Coupled Traveling Wave Synthesis.- The Influence of 3-D Structure on the Propagation of Seismic Waves Away from Earthquakes.- Parallel PSM/FDM Hybrid Simulation of Ground Motions from the 1999 Chi-Chi, Taiwan, Earthquake.- Simulations of Seismic Hazard for the Pacific Northwest of the United States from Earthquakes Associated with the Cascadia Subuction Zone.