On Thu, 26 Sep 2002 13:06:18 +0200, Christoph Hormann
<chr### [at] gmxde> wrote:

>accurately modelling fracture would not be possible with such 
>a system, neither with a FEM system BTW, it requires calculations
>on the microscopic and crystallographic level which is a totally
>different matter.

This is an interesting FEM-based solution:

O'Brien, J. F., Hodgins, J. K. Graphical Modeling and Animation of
Brittle Fracture. SIGGRAPH 99 Conference Proceedings, 137-146, 1999

Further work of O'Brien et. al. can be found in more recent
proceedings of the SIGGRAPH conferences.

Actually brittle fracture is not the worst problem - try getting the
hang of plastically tipped crack propagation :)


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