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SUMMARY (TO BE REVISED ONCE TEXT IS COMPLETE) An adaptive Cracking ParticleMethod is developed to model the crack propagation process. A set of cracking particles are used to describe the crack patterns and can be easily updated when the crack propagates. The change of cracking angle is recorded in discrete segments of broken lines which makes this methodology suitable to model discontinuous cracks. The node arrangements can be set up automatically by the adaptivity approach throughout the whole propagation steps to keep the accuracy and efficiency of the analysis. The system stiffness is calculated and stored in local matrices, so only a small influenced domain should be recalculated for each step while the remainder can be read directly form the storage, which greatly reduces the computational expense. The methodology is applied to several 2D crack problems and good agreements are achieved