The Problem on an Edge Dislocation Running at Superseismic
Velocity
摘要
As a model of shear rupture in the Earth’s crust at the depths of seismic activity, whichgrows with a velocity exceeding the velocity of longitudinal waves, we consider a Volterra edgedislocation moving in an infinite isotropic elastic medium under the action of preliminarytangential stresses. In the plane strain approximation, the equations of stationary motion of themedium around the dislocation are reduced to a hyperbolic system of equations for velocities andstresses, which is integrated by the method of characteristics. Using the invariant