Benchun Duan

TL;DR: The Southern California Earthquake Center/U.S. Geological Surveys (SCEC/USGS) Dynamic Earthquake Rupture Code Verification Exercise as discussed by the authors was the first time that a broad and rigorous examination of numerous spontaneous rupture codes has been performed and the results produced by these codes are compared using Web-based tools.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe a set of benchmark exercises that are designed to test if computer codes that simulate dynamic earthquake rupture are working as intended, and they produce simulation results that include earthquake size, amounts of fault slip, and the patterns of ground shaking and crustal deformation.

TL;DR: Duan et al. as discussed by the authors combined a viscoelastic model for the interseismic process and an elastodynamic model to explore the dynamics of two parallel strike-slip faults embedded in a two-dimensional full space.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors performed two-dimensional dynamic models of strike-slip faults with a change in strike (a bend) over multiple earthquake cycles to examine the long-term effects of nonplanar fault geometry.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors use the 2D finite element method to determine how geometrical parameters determine whether rupture will propagate across a linked stepover in a strike-slip fault.