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Chouet 1982
Chouet, B. (1982). Free surface displacements in the near field of a tensile crack expanding in three dimensions. Journal of Geophysical Research 87: doi: 10.1029/JB087iB05p03868. issn: 0148-0227.

The discrete wave number method is applied to the study of the elastic motions due to an arbitrary three-dimensional tensile source. The source elastic field is formulated as a superposition of plane waves propagating in discrete directions. The discretization stems from an assumption of two-dimensional periodicity in the description of the source. Examples of the free surface motion induced in the near field of circular and rectangular dislocation sources expanding in a homogeneous half space are discussed.

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