Attached is a simple code that I wrote a while back to convert a force-deflection/engineering-stress_strain/true_stress_strain curve to effective stress vs effective strain curve. The input is a simple LS-DYNA valid keyword file with *define_curve keyword. Its not an elegant code but works in most cases. A sample curve is also included. I am working on…

Initial velocity is always specified to a single node and can carry only one value. Multiple initial velocity definitions for the same node will always use the last encountered value. To illustrate this, if we have nodes N1,N2 and N3 and we define a initial velocity for all nodes to be ‘V1’ followed by N2…