Archive for October, 2007

Blog Statistics – Thank You!

Just wanted to post some stats (courtesy http://www.statcounter.com) we gathered for the blog. It has been extremely gratifying that readers come back to look for information. We want to thank all our readers, and we hope to continue providing useful posts that help LS-DYNA users worldwide. (Click image to enlarge)

Coverage of Japan LS-DYNA Conference – Courtesy Sven Holcombe

I am glad to write that Sven Holcombe from Japan will be providing us a brief first-hand coverage of the Japan LS-DYNA Conference that is going to happen on Oct 30 & Oct 31! Please thank Sven when you get a chance. Details of the conference can be found here 2007 Japan LS-DYNA Conference Thanks [...]

Makefile – Is This Just for Programmers?

Recently, I have been assembling models outside of any pre-processors and found that the use of Makefile can often be very helpful in putting together models on the fly provided you have a good process of storing the models in subsystems. A simple example is show below. # Comment starts with a pound sign # [...]

Subsystem Swapping Made Easy with *SET_NODE_GENERAL, *SET_SEGMENT_GENERAL, and *INCLUDE_TRANSFORM

In web technology, it is a common practice to build applications that “share nothing”. For example, if a web application is running on a web server, and you need move the application to another machine, it is extremely simple to do this if the app does not use data on the machine its running on. [...]

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Automatic Tiebreak – Some Quick Notes

I posted a detailed document on the TIEBREAK contacts. Here are a few things that I noticed after the I wrote the article. 1. Scale down the penalty stiffness down to 0.1 if you see instability. 2. It is important to have the two surface to be “just in contact” and not “too far” or [...]




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