Open AccessStress Green's functions for a constant slip rate on a triangular fault
Author(s) -
Tada Taku
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
geophysical journal international
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.302
H-Index - 168
eISSN - 1365-246X
pISSN - 0956-540X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-246x.2006.02868.x
Subject(s) - discretization , isotropy , slip (aerodynamics) , piecewise , fault plane , geometry , constant (computer programming) , homogeneous , boundary value problem , fault (geology) , mathematical analysis , mathematics , geology , physics , computer science , seismology , quantum mechanics , combinatorics , thermodynamics , programming language
SUMMARY I present analytical time‐domain expressions for the Green's functions, which represent the transient stress response of an infinite, homogeneous and isotropic medium to a constant slip rate on a triangular fault that continues perpetually after the slip onset. The solution can be utilized in the formulation of boundary element methods, which discretize a fault plane of any arbitrary geometry into an assembly of small triangular elements and assume the slip rate to be piecewise constant within each discrete element.