University of Southern California
Department of Earth Sciences
3651 Trousdale Pkwy, ZHS 117
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0740

1. Dynamic Rupture along a bimaterial interface using FDM modeling. [details]
(work with Professor Yehuda Ben-Zion, my advisor at USC)

2. Earthquake energetics during dynamic rupture processes by FEM modeling. [details]
(work with Professor Alan Needleman from Brown University and my advisor Yehuda Ben-Zion)

3. Imaging the detailed structure of the Parkfield segment of the San Andreas Fault using fault-zone head waves and trapped waves. [details]
(work with Professor Zhigang Peng from Georgia Tech and my advisor Yehuda Ben-Zion)

1. Ben-Zion, Y. and Shi, Z. (2005). Dynamic Rupture on a Material Interface with Spontaneous Generation of Plastic Strain in the Bulk, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 236, 486-496.  (PDF available)

2. Shi, Z. and Ben-Zion, Y. (2006). Dynamic rupture on a bimaterial interface governed by slip-weakening friction, Geophys. J. Int., 165, 469-484. (PDF available)

3. Shi, Z., Ben-Zion, Y., and Needleman A. (2008). Properties of dynamic rupture and energy partition in a solid with a frictional interface, J. Mech. Phys. Solids., 56, 5-24, doi:10.1016/j.jmps.2007.04.006. (PDF available)