Suggested Exercises

1. Change the reference stress state in Step 2 by editing the spatial database. How does this affect the solution?

2. Create .cfg files to run the simulations with a Cubit mesh.

3. Create additional spatial database files so that the material properties for each material are different. Rerun Steps 2 and 3. How does this affect the solution?

4. Adjust the distribution of surface tractions in Step 4.

5. Experiment with refining the mesh and basis orders of 1 or 2 for the solution subfields. What combination gives the highest accuracy with a reasonable simulation runtime?

6. Adjust the timing of the earthquake ruptures in Steps 6-8.