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

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Simulation of the Micro-physics of Rocks Using LSMearth

Chapter 3 Damage Localization, Sensitivity of Energy Release and the Catastrophe Transition

Chapter 4 Experimental Study of the Process Zone, Nucleation Zone and Plastic Area of Earthquakes by the Shadow Optical Method of Caustics

Chapter 5 Simulation of the Influence of Rate- and State-dependent Friction on the Macroscopic Behavior of Complex Fault Zones with the Lattice Solid Model

Chapter 6 Finite Element Analysis of a Sandwich Friction Experiment Model of Rocks

Chapter 7 Thermal-mechanical Coupling in Shear Deformation of Viscoelastic Material as a Model of Frictional Constitutive Relations

Chapter 8 Slip- and Time-dependent Fault Constitutive Law and its Significance in Earthquake Generation Cycles

Chapter 9 A Condition for Super-shear Rupture Propagation in a Heterogeneous Stress Field

Chapter 10 Simulation of the Transition of Earthquake Rupture from Quasi-static Growth to Dynamic Propagation

Chapter 11 Numerical Simulation of Fault Zone Guided Waves: Accuracy and 3-D Effects

Chapter 12 Regional Seismic Wavefield Computation on a 3-D Heterogeneous Earth Model by Means of Coupled Traveling Wave Synthesis

Chapter 13 The Influence of 3-D Structure on the Propagation of Seismic Waves Away from Earthquakes

Chapter 14 Parallel PSM/FDM Hybrid Simulation of Ground Motions from the 1999 Chi-Chi, Taiwan, Earthquake

Chapter 15 Simulations of Seismic Hazard for the Pacific Northwest of the United States from Earthquakes Associated with the Cascadia Subduction Zone