Earthquake Rupture Modeling: Fracturing vs. Friction​


Title

Earthquake Rupture Modeling: Fracturing vs. Friction​

Publication Type
Conference Proceedings
Year of Conference
2020
Conference Name
MIT Earth Resources Laboratory Annual Founding Members Meeting 2020
Publication Language
eng
Citation Key
3464
Abstract

We qualitatively and quantitatively compared the fault parameters for different rupture propagation approaches (rate-and-state friction, slip weakening friction, exponential cohesive zone fracturing model) by means of FEM simulations. Results produced by different approaches are virtually indistinguishable (apart from very near-field stress profile observations) given the fracture energy is set the same in all cases.