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 and 9.4-1, having the ability to cater for multiple remeshing cracks and merging of remeshed regions respectively.

Work continues to enhance the remeshing capabilities with the interface to Simcenter Nastran being upgraded to included support for remeshing.

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 (for example, allowing an initial elliptic geometric definition to cut multiple crack fronts into a model). An example of an enhancement in the now-released 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 shown below.