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In the light of the rheological properties of crustal rocks and some features of earthquakes, a rheological model for fault rocks is suggested in the paper and the possibility of applying the suggested model to the study of earthquake mechanism is discussed. The results show that it is reasonable to take the suggested model as a physical simplification of fault rocks and to apply it to the numerical calculation and simulation of 2-D problems.
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The Chinese version of this paper appeared in the Chinese edition ofActa Seismologica Sinica,14, 129–136, 1992.
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Zhang, L., Tao, Z. A visco-elastoplastic model for fault rocks and its application to earthquake research. Acta Seismologica Sinica 5, 667–674 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02651013
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02651013