<div dir="ltr"><div><div>What you describe is typical of strain softening. In the solid mechanics community, arc length methods are often prefered to solve this kind of problems. The classical references are Riks and <span class="gmail-st">Crisfield. You can also take a look at this technique : <a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/nme.971/abstract">http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/nme.971/abstract</a>.<br></span></div><span class="gmail-st">But I am not aware of the avalability of such approach in the TS objects of PETSc.<br><br></span></div><span class="gmail-st">Nicolas<br></span></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2018-01-04 8:35 GMT+01:00 Sanjay Govindjee <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:s_g@berkeley.edu" target="_blank">s_g@berkeley.edu</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Are you sure your problem is stable? Also have you tried adding
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<div>I am solving a fortran framework to simulate phase-field
fracture problem. Upto the failure point the code is working
fine. But as the crack-phase starts to propagate, there is
abrupt changes in the Stiffness Matrix, so determinant
becomes nearly equal to zero. Hence, the code crashes.</div>
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<div>I tried with mumps package with pc lu. Also tried,
superlu, gmres and fgmres with jacobi, bjacobi, lu. But the
problem still persist.</div>
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<div>Avtar Singh</div>
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