Abstract

Fracture simulation of real-world materials is an exceptionally challenging problem due to complex material properties like anisotropic elasticity and the presence of material impurities. We present a graph-based finite element method to simulate dynamic fracture in anisotropic materials. We further enhance this model by developing a novel probabilistic damage mechanics for modelling materials with impurities using a random graph-based formulation. We demonstrate how this formulation can be used by artists for directing and controlling fracture. We simulate and render fractures for a diverse set of materials to demonstrate the potency and robustness of our methods.

Paper and Supplementary Material

A. Mandal, P. Chaudhuri, and S. Chaudhuri.
Simulating Fracture in Anisotropic Materials Containing Impurities.
ACM SIGGRAPH Conference on Motion, Interaction and Games (MIG). 2022.
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Related Work

A. Mandal, P. Chaudhuri, and S. Chaudhuri. Remeshing-Free Graph-Based Finite Element Method for Fracture Simulation. In Computer Graphics Forum. 2023. [Project Page]

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