Deformation of a two-phase medium due to a long buried strike-slip fault

Sunita Rani, Neeru Bala

Department of Mathematics, Dayanand College, Hisar, India.
Department of Mathematics, Guru Jambheshwar University of Science & Technology, Hisar, India.

DOI: 10.4236/ns.2013.510132                

Abstract

The aim of the present paper is to obtain the two-dimensional deformation of a two-phase elastic medium consisting of half-spaces of different ri- gidities in welded contact due to a buried long strike-slip fault. The solution is valid for arbitrary values of the fault-depth and the dip angle. The effect of fault-depth on the displacement and stress fields for different values of dip angle has been studied numerically. It is found that the displacement field varies significantly for a buried fault from the corresponding displacement field for an interface-breaking fault. The contour maps showing the stress field for various dip angles for buried and interface-breaking fault have been plotted. It has been observed that the stress field varies significantly for a buried fault from the corresponding stress field for an interface-breaking fault.

Keywords

Deformation; Two-Phase Elastic Medium; Buried Strike-Slip Fault; Arbitrary Dip

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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