Abstract
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.
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Rani, S., Singh, S.J. Static deformation of two welded half-spaces due to dip-slip faulting. Proc. Indian Acad. Sci. (Earth Planet Sci.) 101, 269–282 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02878137
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