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[elhamasadi]

Hello,

I want to study the probability of crack initiation on a surface geometry, by which I mean that the crack must take different random positions during the solution process. Does anyone have any idea on how I can face this condition in ansys workbench?

Thanks in advance,

Elham

[April Wang]

Ansys does not do crack initiation as of yet, so user has to have a criteria (max principle stress, etc.) to know when and where to model their crack. So the question is do you have such criteria and then what is the expectation. Also if you want cracks to initiate during solve time based on reaching this criterion, that is not possible at the moment.

[elhamasadi]

Hi, thank you. I found a solution for that