抄録
Earthquakes are the typical examples of failure phenomena of the crust materials. Especially, prediction of failure behavior of the faults is important for disaster mitigation. However, physical and mathematical modeling of failure phenomena is very difficult. In this sense, we need a highly efficient numerical analysis tool for failure behavior. This paper presents the application of FEM-β to analyze failure problems of earthquake. The major characteristic of FEM-β, the high efficiency in solving failure problem, is explained in the viewpoint of function discretization and failure criterion treatment.
