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f Finite difference modelling of faults and fractures
- Publisher: European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers
- Source: Conference Proceedings, 56th EAEG Meeting, Jun 1994, cp-47-00013
- ISBN: 978-90-73781-05-4
Abstract
A fault or fracture can be modelled as a surface across which stress traction is assumed to be continuous, yet displacement is allowed to be discontinuous. The simplest model that accounts for the effect of such a surface on seismic waves takes the traction vector and the displacement discontinuity vector to be linearly related by a `fracture compliance matrix'.