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Quarterly of Applied Mathematics

Quarterly of Applied Mathematics

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An inverse method for determining parameters for folded structures


Author: I. Lerche
Journal: Quart. Appl. Math. 54 (1996), 625-635
MSC: Primary 86A60; Secondary 86A22
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/qam/1417228
MathSciNet review: MR1417228
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Abstract: General analytic solutions are presented here to an equation relating two angles describing fault shape, and two angles describing fold shape. The analytic solutions provide any of the four angles when the other three are given.


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