Spontaenous Dynamic Rupture With Off-Fault Damage Rheology and Secondary Faulting;
Physical Limits to Extreme Ground Motion;
Physics-based Strong Ground Motion Prediction;
Multi-cycle Dynamics of Geometrically Complex Fault Systems;
Finite Element Method and Parallel Computing.
Recent Publications:
-Duan, B., and S. M. Day (2007), Modeling off-fault plastic strain localization during dynamic earthquake rupture, in preparation.
-Duan, B.,and D. D. Oglesby(2007), Nonuniform prestress from prior earthquakes
and the effect on dynamics of branched fault systems, J. Geophys. Res., 112, B05308, doi:10.1029/2006JB004443.
-Duan, B.,and D. D. Oglesby(2006), Heterogeneous fault stresses from previous earthquakes
and the effect on dynamics of parallel strike-slip faults, J. Geophys. Res., 111, B05309, doi:10.1029/2005JB004138.
-Duan, B.,and D. D. Oglesby(2005), Multicycle dynamics of nonplanar strike-slip faults
, J. Geophys. Res., 110, B03304, doi:10.1029/2004JB003298.
-Duan, B.,and D. D. Oglesby(2005), The dynamics of thrust and normal faults over multiple
earthquake cycles: Effects of dipping fault geometry, Bull. Seismo. Soc. Am., 95(5), pp.1623-1636, doi:10.1785/0120040234.
Xu, S., B. Duan, and D. Zhang (2000). Selection of the wavenumbers k using an optimization method for the inverse Fourier transform in 2.5D electrical modeling, Geophysical Prospecting, 48(5), 789-796.
