Research:

• Effect of fault mechanical interaction on slip distribution and deformation;
• Fold associated to blind thrust fault;
• Joint spacing study;
• Stress field around joints at layer interfaces;
• Deformation above a listric normal fault;
• Earthquake triggering.
  

Oil and Gas industry:

• Characterization of faulted and fractured reservoirs;
• Scaling of fault data for prediction of sub-seismic faults;
• Help interpretating the 3D seismic data for fault linkage and reservoir compartmentalization;
• Help estimating the vertical fault dimension;
• Assessment of fault sealing potential;
• Modeling of sub-seismic fractures (faults and joints);
• Prediction of fracture and fault reactivation in the present day stress field;
• Modeling of fracture permeability;
• Effects of production induced stress changes;
• Well planning;
• Prediction of fault associated depocenters.