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HyperLife Crack Growth Overview
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- Crack Growth Mechanism
- Supported Crack Types
  HyperLife Crack Growth supports 1D weighted functions and 2D weighted functions.
- Required Material Properties
- Methods to Determine Elementary Material Block Size ρ*
- Summary of the Methods to Determine the Elementary Material Block Size ρ*
- Select Material Properties
- Load Shedding Due to Growing Crack
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HyperLife Crack Growth Overview

The crack growth solver in HyperLife is based on a method developed by Dr. Glinka.^¹ ^²

The solver can solve a crack growth problem considering:

Weight function-based stress intensity factor that uses local stress at the cracks.
Variable amplitude load.
External residual stress.
Crack retardation.
Short crack as well as long crack.
Load shedding/redistribution due to growing crack.