Meshing around the crack front was described in the previous section.

The remaining area of the rectangular block is meshed with SOLID187 elements. The Patch Conforming Tetrahedron mesh method is added with rectangular body scoping to generate the required tetrahedron-based mesh for the Semi-Elliptical Crack. Local edge sizing is separately applied on the short and long edges of rectangular body. For information on how to apply sizing, see Applying a Local Sizing Control.