TY  - JOUR
T1  - Effect of the Movement Across a Long inclined, Buried, Creeping, Strike-Slip
Fault in the Visco-Elastic Medium of Burger’s Rheology
AU - Mondal, Debabrata AU - Sen, Sanjay AU - (Mondal), Seema Sarkar 
JO  - Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences
VL  - 14
IS  - 3
SP  - 965
EP  - 974
PY  - 2019
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1816-949x
DO  - jeasci.2019.965.974
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=jeasci.2019.965.974
KW  - correspondence principle
KW  -Green’s function technique
KW  -visco-elastic medium of Burger’s rheology
KW  -Strike-slip fault
AB  - Fault movement across a fault is preceded by accumulation of stress near it over a considerable
period of time. When this stress exceeds the total cohesive and frictional forces across the fault, a movement
which may be sudden or creeping, across it set in. In this study, a creeping movement across a very long,
buried, strike-slip fault inclined to the free surface and of finite width is considered in an isotropic,
homogeneous, visco-elastic medium of Burger’s rheology type. A mathematical model for such fault movement
is developed during the period when there is no fault movement and also for the aseismic period which is
restored after the sudden movement. The analytical expressions of displacement, stresses and strains for both
the period are determined by the use of Green’s function technique and correspondence principle. Finally, these
displacement, stresses and strains are numerically computed with suitable values of the model parameters and
the results thus obtained are presented graphically. Such theoretical models may be used for obtaining greater
insight into the earthquake processes in seismically active regions.
ER  -