Fracture controls make sure that the effect of cracks is included in the solution. The Fracture Controls category becomes visible under Analysis Settings when a Fracture object is inserted via the Model object. It is only visible for Static Structural and Transient Structural analyses.
The primary property, Fracture, is set to by default to compute fracture parameters. By default, the parameters SIFS, J-Integral, and VCCT are computed. Also when set to , the following additional properties display:
SIFS: The default setting is . Set this control to to exclude the SIFS parameter results computation.
J-Integral: The default setting is . Set this control to to exclude the J-Integral parameter results computation.
Material Force: The default setting is . Set this control to to compute the Material Force parameter results.
T-Stress: The default setting is . Set this control to to compute the T-Stress parameter results.
C*-Integral: this property is visible only when a creep material is used and the Creep Effects property of the Creep Controls is set to . The default setting is . Set this control to to exclude the computation of the C*-Integral parameter results.