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[luc scholtes <lscholtes63@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

I am trying to find a way to visualize cracks/fracturing process in YADE...
The idea is to keep in memory a trace of each crack corresponding to a brake
of a cohesive interaction (typically, contact point position, corresponding
cross section and whatever else...) and to manage their visualization
through Paraview (as discs with radius sizes associated to cross section for
example...). The visualization part is not really a problem (yet..), but I
cannot find the best way to store these "crack entities". Indeed, they are
not a part of a body (cannot be stored in body->state), and they cannot be
associated with interactions because, basically, cracks are created when
interactions disappear (so cannot be stored in interaction->phys)...

Did anibody try to look into this direction?

Regards

  Luc