Sandhya Mangala, Terry Wilmarth, Sayantan Chakravorty, Nilesh Choudhury, Laxmikant V. Kale and Philippe H. Geubelle, Parallel Adaptive Simulations of Dynamic Fracture Events, Parallel Programming Laboratory, Department of Computer Science , University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, PPL Technical Report 06-15, Accepted for publication in Engineering with Computers, 2007.