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Armin
Ansys Employee

I see... I don't have much experience with fracture of brittle materials, but I think you can consider a stress-based approach for fracture (instead of strain-based) by setting the SIGP1 or SIGVM in the MAD_ADD_EROSION card to the desired fracture stress.Â