Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR NUMERICAL AND ANALYTICAL METHODS IN GEOMECHANICS
Volume 37, Issue 18, Pages 3087-3111Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/nag.2179
Keywords
extended finite elements; fault rupture dynamics; bulk plasticity
Funding
- Stanford Graduate Fellowship (SGF)
- US Department of Energy [DE-FG02-03ER15454]
- U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) [DE-FG02-03ER15454] Funding Source: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
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We present an explicit extended finite element framework for fault rupture dynamics accommodating bulk plasticity near the fault. The technique is more robust than the standard split-node method because it can accommodate a fault propagating freely through the interior of finite elements. To fully exploit the explicit algorithmic framework, we perform mass lumping on the enriched finite elements that preserve the kinetic energy of the rigid body and enrichment modes. We show that with this technique, the extended FE solution reproduces the standard split-node solution, but with the added advantage that it can also accommodate randomly propagating faults. We use different elastoplastic constitutive models appropriate for geomaterials, including the Mohr-Coulomb, Drucker-Prager, modified Cam-Clay, and a conical plasticity model with a compression cap, to capture off-fault bulk plasticity. More specifically, the cap model adds robustness to the framework because it can accommodate various modes of deformation, including compaction, dilatation, and shearing. Copyright (C) 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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