Earthquake Processes: Physical Modelling, Numerical Simulation and Data Analysis Part I (Paperback, Softcover Repri)

A. Micro-physics of Rupture and Fault Constitutive Laws.- Simulation of the Micro-physics of Rocks Using LSMearth.- Damage Localization, Sensitivity of Energy Release and the Catastrophe Transition.- Experimental Study of the Process Zone, Nucleation Zone and Plastic Area of Earthquakes by the Shadow Optical Method of Caustics.- Simulation of the Influence of Rate-and State-dependent Friction on the Macroscopic Behavior of Complex Fault Zones with the Lattice Solid Model.- Finite Element Analysis of a Sandwich Friction Experiment Model of Rocks.- Thermal-mechanical Coupling in Shear Deformation of Viscoelastic Material as a Model of Frictional Constitutive Relations.- Slip-and Time-dependent Fault Constitutive Law and its Significance in Earthquake Generation Cycles.- B. Dynamic Rupture, Wave Propagation and Strong Ground Motion.- A Condition for Super-shear Rupture Propagation in a Heterogeneous Stress Field.- Simulation of the Transition of Earthquake Rupture from Quasi-static Growth to Dynamic Propagation.- Numerical Simulation of Fault Zone Guided Waves: Accuracy and 3-D Effects.- Regional Seismic Wavefield Computation on a 3-D Heterogeneous Earth Model by Means of Coupled Traveling Wave Synthesis.- The Influence of 3-D Structure on the Propagation of Seismic Waves Away from Earthquakes.- Parallel PSM/FDM Hybrid Simulation of Ground Motions from the 1999 Chi-Chi, Taiwan, Earthquake.- Simulations of Seismic Hazard for the Pacific Northwest of the United States from Earthquakes Associated with the Cascadia Subuction Zone.