[CIG-SHORT] Fault output normal traction

[Brad Aagaard]

On 8/3/17 9:20 PM, Li, Teng wrote:
> Dear Charles,
>
> I have a 2d rectangular model and I use the slip weakening model.
>
> Please find the attachments which are the fault.h5 file.
>
> And I use the following Matlab code to find the output:
>
> hinfoh=hdf5info('/Users/tengli/pylith/Local/fault.h5');
>
> coords=hdf5read(hinfoh.GroupHierarchy.Groups(1).Datasets(1));
>
> shear=hdf5read(hinfoh.GroupHierarchy.Groups(3).Datasets(3));
>
>
> And I find there 2 rows in shear data. So I guess one is the shear
> traction and another is normal traction.

Correct. The vector components are in the fault coordinate system (left 
lateral and fault opening for 2D).

Brad