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MAPDL technology is strictly implicit. Even if we "kill" (deactivate) elements (using the MAPDL EKILL command) as the solution progresses (using, say, some kind of limiting stress as a criterion for element deactivation), the deactivated elements are retained... they will continue to be used in the formulation of the system matrices. The failed elements will almost certainly become "entangled" - it will be impossible to formulate global stiffness matrix based on severely mishapen elements (e.g., vertices get pushed though element faces/edges on the opposite side). When that happens it's game over - the simulation will end with an element formulation error.
We have a couple of explicit solvers that are almost always much better suited to an impact + ultimate failure simulation such as this. They allow the specification of limiting failure stresses which, when exceeded, result in the elimination of the element entirely (so the simulation can proceed).
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