Click here to view fulltext PDF

Permanent link:
https://www.ias.ac.in/article/fulltext/jess/101/03/0269-0282

Dip-slip faulting; long fault; static deformation; welded half-spaces

Closed-form expressions for the displacements and stresses at any point of either of two elastic half-spaces in welded contact caused by a dip-slip line source obtained earlier are integrated analytically to derive the elastic residual field due to a long dip-slip fault of finite width. The results are valid for an arbitrary dip of the fault. The variation of the displacement field with the distance from the fault as well as with the distance from the interface is studied numerically. It is found that the displacement field is heavily dependent on the dip angle. Contour maps showing the residual elastic field in the two half-spaces caused by a vertical dip-slip fault located in one of the half-spaces are also obtained.

Sunita Rani¹ Sarva Jit Singh¹

1. Department of Mathematics, Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak - 124001, India

Published

September 1992

Manuscript received

7 January 1992

Manuscript revised

22 May 1992