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Then create a Displacement/Rotation B.C. select the node set as the region, and constrain U2 and U3
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3. Select Options for the Crack view cut 4. Go to the On Cut tab and select Use these Options 5. In the Basic subtab select Filled and No edges 6. In the Color & Style subtab, change the Fill Color in filled/shaded plots and click apply. Try different colors and translucencies to easily see the crack. (click Apply to view the changes)
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All of the results can be found under ResultHistory Output although organizing these results can take some work. Before beginning, read the overview of the name filter characters by clicking the light bulb. Results are taken at certain points along the crack front, each point has a specific XFEM label (XFEM_1, XFEM_2, etc.) We will first determine the location of each point, and then the distance along crack front can be calculated.
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First enter *_? in the name filter bar, this will show any results ending in an underscore followed by one character. Select the x, y, and z coordinates for the first 9 XFEM points, click Save As, append((XY,XY,)), then click OK.
Right-click on the newly-created XYData in the sidebar and click edit, then copy and paste the y values column into excel. This gives 27 data points, 1 for each x, y, and z coordinate of the first 9 XFEM points. In Excel, we then separate the column of 27 into 3 columns of 9.
We then collect the rest of the coordinates (assuming less that 100 XFEM points) by entering *_?? In the Name Filter bar of the History Output dialogue box. Note that in this case, the coordinates end at XFEM_34, this means that there are 34 XFEM points along the crack front. We then copy and paste these data points to Excel by using the same method as before (edit XYData-2 this time!)
The distance along the crack front can now be readily calculated from the coordinates using the following formula: Di+1=Di+SQRT((xi+1-xi)2+(yi+1-yi)2+(zi+1-zi)2)) Where Di is the distance along the crack front of the ith XFEM point. Note: D0=0
We are now ready to start collecting XFEM results. Starting with the first contour, enter *_1 in the Name Filter box of history output. Then select all data points except for the coordinates and the Crack propagation direction. Paste these into excel and disperse them into the Countour#1 columns, as seen below.
Repeat this step for all 5 contours and collection of the contour integral results is completed.
As seen below, the results from our analysis are consistent with those from the benchmarks manual. This verifies that the problem was accurately analyzed.
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