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| Feature | How It Improves Full‑Crack Modelling | |---------|----------------------------------------| | | Allows separate control of normal and shear stiffness, friction, and dilation. The J2 joint can be fully tensile‑cut‑off, making it perfect for pure cracks. | | Improved Mesh Refinement Controls | Adaptive mesh refinement around joints reduces spurious stress concentrations and yields smoother crack‑opening profiles. | | Coupled Phase‑Field Extension (Beta) | While still experimental, the phase‑field module lets you simulate crack nucleation and propagation without pre‑defining the crack path. Useful for validation of the line‑element approach. | | Enhanced Output Options | Real‑time crack‑opening plots, automatic extraction of crack‑opening profiles, and CSV export of joint forces. | | Stability Improvements | New solver damping and convergence criteria reduce the risk of divergence when large crack openings occur. | | User‑Defined Material Models (UCM) | You can script a custom normal‑stiffness degradation law (e.g., exponential decay with opening) for more realistic partially cohesive cracks. |

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