Abstract Due to the limitations of railway route selection, some high-speed railways are inevitably built near or across fault zones. To study distribution rail-bridge interaction under different load history states suspension bridges three types near-fault pulse-type earthquakes, this paper takes China's longest bridge—Wufengshan Yangtze River Bridge as background and establishes a spatial mod...

[1] We report on laboratory experiments in which stick-slipping shear surfaces are subject to transient stressing to simulate earthquake triggering by seismic waves. Granular layers and bare granite surfaces were sheared in a servo-controlled deformation apparatus in double-direct shear. The seismic waves from an earthquake and tectonic load were simulated by superimposing a loading rate sinuso...

The state-of-the-art of near-fault problems in earthquake engineering is comprehensive reviewed. Strong ground motions in the near-fault region exhibit several new characteristics, which cause the attentions of both seismologists and engineers who zealously studied these ground motions during the last two deceases. The investigation on ground motions can interpret the mechanism of the earthquak...

Due to the limited resolution at depth of geodetic and other geophysical data, the geometry and the loading rate of the ramp-décollement faults below the metropolitan Los Angeles are poorly understood. Here we complement these data by assuming conservation of motion across the Big Bend of the San Andreas Fault. Using a Bayesian approach, we constrain the geometry of the ramp-décollement system ...

This paper presents a fault classification method for transmission lines based on voltage phasors using classification and regression trees (CART). The proposed method is intended to aid system operators in understanding the outputs of a PMU only state estimator. Faults are classified into four categories when the estimator is positive sequence and into ten categories when the estimator is thre...

[1] Fault processes involve complex patterns of seismic events and aseismic slip. This work develops a three-dimensional (3-D) methodology for simulating long-term history of spontaneous seismic and aseismic slip on a vertical planar strike-slip fault subjected to slow tectonic loading. Our approach reproduces all stages of earthquake cycles, from accelerating slip before dynamic instability, t...

We present an efficient and rigorous numerical procedure for calculating the elastodynamic response of a fault subjected to slow tectonic loading processes of long duration within which them are episodes of rapid earthquake failure. This is done for a general class of rateand state-dependent friction laws with positive direct velocity effect. The algorithm allows us to treat accurately, within ...

Time-critical systems for instance in avionics, isolate applications from each other to provide safety and timing guarantees. Resources are partitioned in time and space to create an isolated partition per application which facilitates fault containment and independent development, testing and verification of applications. Current partitioned systems do not allow dynamically adding applications...