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November 20, 2023 at 8:35 am
SHELL
Ansys Employee

Hello Elena,

the links are links to the Ansys Help. Don't you have access to the Ansys Help?

Unfortunately, I cannot comment on your engineering approach, so I cannot help you in deciding whether your meshing/contact definition is appropriate. Hopefully, someone else can comment on that.

What I can say is: If you want to reliably get a mesh using the Semi-Elliptical Crack feature, you should stay well away from the surface/face boundaries (that includes any contact and shared topology definitions). The same is true to get appropriate results for your contour integral evaluation. For the latter, the solver will help you by throwing a warning if there could be a potential issue.

Best regards and good luck for your application,

Sascha