course Share on State-of-the-art webGL 2.0 Authors: Xavier Ho The University of Sydney The University of SydneyView Profile , Juan Miguel de Joya DigitalFish DigitalFishView Profile , Neil Trevett NVIDIA NVIDIAView Profile Authors Info & Claims SA '17: SIGGRAPH Asia 2017 CoursesNovember 2017 Article No.: 16Pages 1–51https://doi.org/10.1145/3134472.3134479Published:27 November 2017Publication History 0citation262DownloadsMetricsTotal Citations0Total Downloads262Last 12 Months12Last 6 weeks2 Get Citation AlertsNew Citation Alert added!This alert has been successfully added and will be sent to:You will be notified whenever a record that you have chosen has been cited.To manage your alert preferences, click on the button below.Manage my AlertsNew Citation Alert!Please log in to your account Save to BinderSave to BinderCreate a New BinderNameCancelCreateExport CitationPublisher SiteGet Access

This paper presents a method for adaptive fracture propagation in thin sheets. A high-quality triangle mesh is dynamically restructured to adaptively maintain detail wherever it is required by the simulation. These requirements include refining where cracks are likely to either start or advance. Refinement ensures that the stress distribution around the crack tip is well resolved, which is vital for creating highly detailed, realistic crack paths. The dynamic meshing framework allows subsequent coarsening once areas are no longer likely to produce cracking. This coarsening allows efficient simulation by reducing the total number of active nodes and by preventing the formation of thin slivers around the crack path. A local reprojection scheme and a substepping fracture process help to ensure stability and prevent a loss of plasticity during remeshing. By including bending and stretching plasticity models, the method is able to simulate a large range of materials with very different fracture behaviors.