This is an example of a 3D crack simulation using the Z-cracks FE software. Such a coarse simulation (with only 85 adaptive remeshing steps and 22,000 dofs with P1 interpolation) has been performed in 65 min on a dual core laptop with multi-threading enabled for material integration, linear solver and SIF extraction stages.
Mixed-mode 3D crack propagation
December 21st, 2012