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Force-Displacement Response using the R-Curve
 | Increment the crack length from initial notch.
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| Use the R curve to compute the strain energy release rate at that crack length
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| Use energy balance , G = R, to solve for the applied load.
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| Iterate to satisfy the fiber pullout constitutive response across the crack length.
 | Obtain Crack profile
| Obtain closing pressure distribution
| update crack profiles
| iterate to meet the convergence criterion
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| Obtain load-displacement- CMOD using compliance based approaches.
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| Propagate the crack to the next length, and continue to failure.
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