On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 1:12 AM, Rémy Mercenier <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> In order to represent failure of a material, i am using a creep system
> coupled to a damage system in libMesh. Based on the results of the
> damage system, i delete the elements for which the damage exceeds a
> critical value.  This element deletion produces a segmentation fault if
> the mesh is refined adaptively or uniformly within libMesh. Thus, the
> question: is it possible to delete single child elements without causing
> a segmentation fault? Otherwise to make the child element marked for
> deletion inactive and then delete the parent element and the children
> later on (when they reach the critical value)?
>

Unfortunately, it's not currently possible to delete one child of a refined
element, although you are not the first person to ask for this capability.

It's actually not possible to "delete" children at all, although all the
children of a given parent element can be simultaneously "coarsened" so
that their parent again becomes active, i.e. a hole is not created in the
Mesh.

-- 
John
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