Computational Earthquake Science Part I

Exciting developments in earthquake science have benefited from new observations, improved computational technologies, and improved modeling capabilities. Designing models of the earthquake of the earthquake generation process is a grand scientific challenge due to the complexity of phenomena and ra...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Donnellan, Andrea (Editor), Mora, Peter (Editor), Matsu'ura, Mitsuhiro (Editor), Yin, Xiang-chu (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Basel Birkhäuser Basel 2004, 2004
Edition:1st ed. 2004
Series:Pageoph Topical Volumes
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • A. Microscopic Simulation
  • Statistical Tests of Load-Unload Response Ratio Signals by Lattice Solid Model: Implication to Tidal Triggering and Earthquake Prediction
  • Long-range Stress Redistribution Resulting from Damage in Heterogeneous Media
  • Review of the Physical Basis of Laboratory-derived Relations for Brittle Failure and their Implications for Earthquake Occurrence and Earthquake Nucleation
  • Particle Dynamics Simulations of Rate- and State-dependent Frictional Sliding of Granular Fault Gouge
  • The Dependence of Constitutive Properties on Temperature and Effective Normal Stress in Seismogenic Environments
  • A Constitutive Scaling Law for Shear Rupture that is Inherently Scale-dependent, and Physical Scaling of Nucleation Time to Critical Point
  • Critical Sensitivity in Driven Nonlinear Threshold Systems
  • Intermittent Criticality and the Gutenberg-Richter Distribution
  • Ergodicity in Natural Fault Systems
  • Focal Mechanism Dependence of a Few Seismic Phenomena and its Implications for the Physics of Earthquakes
  • Continuum Fractal Mechanics of the Earth’s Crust
  • Using Eigenpattern Analysis to Constrain Seasonal Signals in Southern California
  • Accelerating Precursory Activity within a Class of Earthquake Analogue Automata
  • Dynamical System Analysis and Forecasting of Deformation Produced by an Earthquake Fault
  • 3-D Modelling of Plate Interfaces and Numerical Simulation of Long-term Crustal Deformation in and around Japan
  • GeoFEM Kinematic Earthquake Cycle Simulation in Southwest Japan
  • Finite Element Analysis of Fault Bend Influence on Stick-Slip Instability along an Intra-Plate Fault
  • Quasi-static and Quasi-dynamic Modeling of Earthquake Failure at Intermediate Scales