hi am doing my project on high speed machining of aluminium and steel. for chip propagation i want some procedure how to do crack/fracture analysis using ABAQUS. if anybody knew about this please send me information regarding steps involved in building crack propagation.if any practile examples or tutorials are available for this send me to my mail id. my mail id is sasivamsi@gmail.com. am using ABAQUS V6.6.

i will be thankful to the people who help me in this. sice i am running out of time in a week for my project submission i need this.