The new remeshing capability in Zencrack 9.0-1 was an initial implementation onto which more capability has been added with the latest releases, 9.3-1, 9.4-1 and 9.5-1 having the ability to cater for multiple remeshing cracks, merging of remeshed regions and multiple crack fronts connected to a crack plane.

Work continues to enhance the remeshing capabilities with the interface to Simcenter Nastran being upgraded to included support for remeshing in version 9.5-1.

The multi-crack remeshing capability in 9.3-1 included a limitation that the remeshing regions of the cracks do not touch or overlap. Removing this limitation was the main development activity for version 9.4-1 and a pre-cursor to further generalising the remeshing capability for multiple cracks in subsequent releases. In the now-released version 9.5-1, a new capability is included to allow an initial elliptic geometric definition to cut multiple crack fronts into a model. Two examples are shown below. An example of an enhancement in version 9.4-1, in which two cracks whose remesh regions are initially separate become embedded in a single remesh region after some growth has taken place, is also shown below.