[1] We introduce a novel scheme, DGCrack, to simulate dynamic rupture of earthquakes in three dimensions based on an hp-adaptive discontinuous Galerkin method. We solve the velocity-stress weak formulation of elastodynamic equations on an unstructured tetrahedral mesh with arbitrary mesh refinements (h-adaptivity) and local approximation orders (p-adaptivity). Our scheme considers second-order ...

To understand the stability of coal and rock in areas normal faults disturbed by dynamic loads blasting, damage characteristics within a fault are investigated using similarity simulation tests. The mechanism for gas outbursts is analyzed theoretically, results indicate that maximum tensile stress vertical direction blasting hole normal-fault model 1.17 times no-fault model. propagation cracks ...

A central problem in explaining the apparent weakness of the San Andreas and other plate boundary faults has been identifying candidate fault zone materials that are both weak and capable of hosting earthquake-like unstable rupture. Our results demonstrate that smectite clay can be both weak and velocity weakening at low normal stress (<30 MPa). Our data are consistent with previous work, which...

This paper presents a corrective control scheme that automatically counteracts the adverse effect of intermittent faults in the logic of asynchronous sequential machines. When an intermittent fault occurs to the machine, a set of state transitions defined in the machine suspends the normal behavior for a finite interval. The objective is to design a corrective controller that makes the closed-l...

A great amount of fault-based testing strategies have been proposed to generate test cases for detecting certain types of faults in Boolean specifications. However, most of the previous studies on these strategies were focused on the Boolean expressions in the disjunctive normal form, even the irredundant disjunctive normal form — little work has been conducted to comprehensively investigate th...

Field mapping and geochronologic and thermobarometric analyses of the Gurla Mandhata area, in southwest Tibet, reveal major middle to late Miocene, east-west extension along a normal-fault system, termed the Gurla Mandhata detachment system. The maximum fault slip occurs along a pair of low-angle normal faults that have caused significant tectonic denudation of the Tethyan Sedimentary Sequence,...

The paper presents a refined representation framework (distinction is made between effects that are possible for sure or just not impossible, and (ab)normal values information is used). Then, multiple-fault and "cascading-fault" diagnosis are discussed.