Built-In Filtered Nodal Acceleration Output Using IACCOP in *CONTROL_OUTPUT

Starting in LS-DYNA v971, nodal accelerations can be filtered before being output to the ASCII file “NODOUT”. The type of filter can either be a built-in filter based on low-pass Butterworth frequency filter or can be user-defined. The filtering process is turned on by setting the IACCOP=2 in *CONTROL_OUTPUT keyword. The filtering process works by…

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Contact Force Output to RCFORC

The ASCII file “RCFORC” contains the incremental forces contributed by contact algorithms. Due to the nature of the contact-impact interactions, the raw output tends to be very noisy and is of little value. To eliminate the inherent noise in the contact force output, LS-DYNA averages the force magnitude over the preceing output interval which results…

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Simulation Model Decomposition Using Recursive Coordinate Bisection (RCB) Method

In the area of distributed computing using Massively Parrallel Processing (MPP) LS-DYNA, finite element model decomposition is performed after initial processing of the input deck to “distribute” the model content to compute nodes. There are two primary goals for model decomposition. First goal is of of course to “break-down” the given problem into smaller pieces…

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