AN EFFICIENT SPECTRAL BOUNDARY INTEGRAL EQUATION METHOD FOR THE SIMULATION OF EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE PROBLEMS

In this paper, we study on elastodynamic fracture problems and present a symplectic scheme, combined with the spectral boundary integral method, for solving anti-plane spontaneous rupture problems via constructing a nonautonomous Hamiltonian system by introducing independent variables in extended phase space. Slip-weakening friction law is considered with the approach. Numerical experiments are employed to test the effectiveness of symplectic scheme, and the comparisons of numerical results show that the present method is of higher accuracy compared to the non-symplectic method. The results show that the method is a efficient tool for simulating quasi-static and dynamic earthquake processes.