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Fault evolution and earthquakes: A finite element study.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Fault evolution and earthquakes: A finite element study./
Author:	Li, Qingsong.
Description:	141 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Mian Liu.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International67-11B.
Subject:	Geophysics. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3242747
ISBN:	9780542981128

Fault evolution and earthquakes: A finite element study.
Li, Qingsong.

Fault evolution and earthquakes: A finite element study. - 141 p.

Adviser: Mian Liu.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Missouri - Columbia, 2006.

Earthquakes result from sudden fault slip; thus understanding the physics of faulting and fault evolution is important for mitigating earthquake hazards. In this study, I explore stress and strain evolution in faulting and fault evolution and their impacts on earthquakes, using 3D visco-elasto-plastic finite element (FE) models. These models are designed to incorporate the coupling between elasto-frictional upper crust and visco-elastic lower crust and uppermost mantle, and the coupling between fault slip and failure of surrounding upper crust. These couplings are important when studying the stress and strain evolution in a time period of decades to thousands of years long.

ISBN: 9780542981128Subjects--Topical Terms:

535228
Geophysics.

Fault evolution and earthquakes: A finite element study.
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520 $a Earthquakes result from sudden fault slip; thus understanding the physics of faulting and fault evolution is important for mitigating earthquake hazards. In this study, I explore stress and strain evolution in faulting and fault evolution and their impacts on earthquakes, using 3D visco-elasto-plastic finite element (FE) models. These models are designed to incorporate the coupling between elasto-frictional upper crust and visco-elastic lower crust and uppermost mantle, and the coupling between fault slip and failure of surrounding upper crust. These couplings are important when studying the stress and strain evolution in a time period of decades to thousands of years long.
520 $a The New Madrid Seismic Zone (NMSZ) in central United States is a good example of intraplate seismicity, which cannot be readily explained by the plate tectonics theory and remains poorly understood. I have developed a 3D FE model to simulate stress evolution in the NMSZ and surrounding regions. I find that, following a large earthquake, intraplate seismic zones tend to stay in a Coulomb stress shadow for thousands of years, while significant amount of stress and strain energy relieved from the large earthquakes may migrate to and remain within the surrounding crust. The results are consistent with seismicity in the NMSZ region following the 1811-1812 large events.
520 $a To investigate fault evolution and seismicity in plate boundary zone, I have built a 3D dynamic model for the entire San Andreas Fault (SAF) system in California, with the first-order characters of its surface geometry. The results indicate that the geometry of the xi SAF may be the primary cause of the observed along-strike variation of slip rate, stress states, and seismicity. In particular, the Big Bend of the SAF causes the scattered seismicity in southern California and may have facilitated the development of the San Jacinto Fault (SJF) and other active faults there. I have explored the dynamic interactions between the SAF and SJF in the model and found that the initiation of the SJF tends to decrease fault slip rate on the southernmost SAF and focus strain energy in the Mojave Desert and along the East California Shear Zone. These results are consistent with the spatial distribution of earthquakes in southern California, and provide some insights into evolution of fault systems in the plate boundary zone as it continuously seeks the optimal way to accommodate the relative plate motion.
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