The Barkol Tagh and Karlik Tagh ranges of the easternmost Tien Shan are a natural laboratory for studying the fault architecture of an active termination zone of a major intracontinental mountain range. Barkol and Karlik Tagh and lesser ranges to the north are bounded by active thrust faults that locally deform Quaternary sediments. Major thrusts in Karlik Tagh connect along strike to the east ...

In this study, Landsat 5 Thematic Mapper (TM) and SPOT HRV Panchromatic data were analysed to determine the geometry of an active fault segment (the Ganos segment) in Gaziköy-Saros region, west of Marmara Sea, Turkey. Gaziköy-Saros/Ganos segment is a part of North Anatolian Fault Zone (NAFZ). North-Anatolian fault is considered to be one of the most important active strike-slip faults in the wo...

The combination of detailed topographic leveling on the southwest segment of the El Asnam thrust fault with existing seismic and geologic data implies that the geometry of this fault involves shallow dipping flats and steep ramps. The fault appears to be growing along strike toward the southwest end, where the main shock initiated in 1980. From a depth of about 10 km, the main thrust appears to...

The 1992 magnitude 7.3 Landers, California, earthquake is modeled kinemat-ically and dynamically with a three-dimensional nite-diierence method. The kinematic model uses xed, prescribed rupture parameters from the kinematic slip inversion by Wald and Heaton (1994413]) and the dynamic models generate spontaneous ruptures controlled by a prestress distribution computed from the slip distribution ...

We present an algorithm for functional kinematic tolerance analysis of general planar mechanical systems with parametric tolerances. The algorithm performs worst-case analysis of systems of curved parts with contact changes, including open and closed kinematic chains. It computes quantitative variations and helps designers detect qualitative variations, such as blocking and under-cutting. The a...

Physical limits on ground-motion parameters can be estimated from spontaneous-rupture earthquake models but are subject to uncertainties in model parameters. We investigate physical limits at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, and assess sensitivities due to uncertainties in fault geometry, off-fault rock strength, the seismogenic depth, fault zone structure, and undrained poroelastic response of the flui...

in this article a new and an accurate method for kinematic and dynamic analysis of a parallel robot 3prs and a hybrid robot (parallel and serial) 3prs-rrp are presented, which is based on the denavit-hartenberg transformation matrix algebra. first, basic properties of various kinds of robots are compared, and then the denavit-hartenberg parameters and their table are introduced. next, the metho...

The extended finite element method (XFEM) provides a natural way to incorporate strong and weak discontinuities into discretizations. It alleviates the need to mesh discontinuities, allowing simulation meshes to be nearly independent of discontinuity geometry. Currently, both quasistatic deformation and dynamic earthquake rupture simulations under standard FEM are limited to simplified fault ne...