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FRACTURE ELASTISITY

crack progagation whith XEFM

Submitted by Haroon on
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hi all im using abaqus 6.9 to simulate a crack propagation in an elastic material whith Xfem option, i still have this errors :the following XEFM crack are failling to correctly generate the conditions are listed whith the crack names : crack-1 Failed to locate crack tip.

 and if i submit the job even the warning its abort and i get this error:the damage model has to be specified for enriched element ( nbre) instance part 1-1.i specify the damage  model in Intprop as follow

** MATERIALS

**

*Material, name=Material-1

*Elastic