Hello,
With traditional FEM and failure, the elements get removed. So, most likely you will never see chips being created unless you are lucky and remove big chunks of material at a time. Element will get deleted when material failure occurs, so what you observe is what is expected.
I would try with the SPG method:
https://www.lstc-cmmg.org/cutting
Let me know how it goes.
Reno.
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