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In view of the present situation of numerous and complicated faults existing in geology, a method of 3D structural geological modeling based on morphing field is presented. The key idea of this method is to simulate the fracturing process of stratum, and the algorithm of modeling for faults and strata is brought forward in this paper. This method applies the organization of fault relation binary tree (FRBT) to describe the spatial relationship of faults, and the algorithm of building FRBT is presented. In addition, based on the FRBT, we presented the algorithm of restoring morphing and fracturing morphing, which depend on the stratum points existing on both side of the fault. The method can not only describe the stratum containing numerous faults, but also solve the problem of reverse faults and intersected faults.
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This work was supported by the fund of the State Key Laboratory of Software Development Environment under grant No.SKLSDE-2010ZX-10, the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China under grant No.YWF-10-02- 057, the Aero Science Foundation of China under grant No. 20091451017 and the National Natural Science Foundation of China under grant No. 61003110.
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Xianhai, M., Jigang, L., Qin, Y. (2012). 3D Structural Geological Modeling Based on Morphing Field. In: Zhu, R., Ma, Y. (eds) Information Engineering and Applications. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 154. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-2386-6_20
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