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F racture and failure modeling allows for product designs that maximize the safe operating
life of structural components. The state-of-the-art XFEM capability for modeling fracture
and failure in Abaqus alleviates the shortcomings associated with traditional approaches.
XFEM provides the ability to model discontinuities, such as cracks, along an arbitrary,
solution-dependent path. The method can simulate both the initiation and propagation
of a discrete crack. Because the mesh is not required to conform to the geometry of the
discontinuity when studying crack growth, it is not necessary to remesh the bulk materials
during the solution to account for changes in crack size or orientation.
XFEM allows the engineer to model the presence of discontinuities in an element by
enriching degrees of freedom with special displacement functions. In addition, XFEM
enables the modeling of discontinuities in the fluid pressure field, as well as fluid flow within
the cracked element surfaces, such as hydraulically driven fracture. XFEM can also be used
for low-cycle fatigue analysis using the direct cyclic procedure.