Release 2026 R1 includes the following Fracture analysis enhancements:
For the SMART Crack Growth feature:
Fracture Probes: You can now evaluate Fracture Probes, Crack Extension and the Total Number of Cycles, regardless of the setting of the Store Results At property (Analysis Settings > Output Controls). In previous releases, these results were only supported when Store Results At was set to All Time Points.
Restart Controls: A new property, Maximum Total Files to Save, has been added to the Restart Controls category of the Analysis Settings object. This property defines the maximum number of restart files that can be saved during a restart analysis. Use this property to control the total number of restart files retained for future restarts of the analysis. During a SMART Crack Growth restart analysis, the default maximum number of saved files is 99 for both restart files (*.xnnn) and remeshing database files (*.rdnn).
Imported Body Temperature. Previously, when you imported body temperature loads (node-based loads) from External Model, and generated a crack mesh over the imported mesh, the application removed scoping if the load was applied to the nodes included in the crack mesh region. Now, the application updates the scoping and properly maps the load values onto the crack mesh generated on the imported base mesh.
Imported Boundary Conditions and Named Selections. When you generate a crack mesh on an imported base mesh that includes imported Contacts, Constraints, Surface Loads, and Named Selections from an external mesh model, the application now retains their scoping, as long as the scoping of these objects is unaffected by the crack mesh generated locally. In previous releases, such scoping was automatically removed, even if the imported objects were outside the crack mesh zone.