Here are the release notes. Features and enhancements included in 971 R3.2 that were not available in 971 R3.1 include the following:New Material Models:*MAT_255 ()Enhanced Material Models:support of user defined failure for:– *MAT_123 (VP=1)– *MAT_103– *MAT_024 (VP=1)*MAT_191 now supports end release for beams*MAT_187 updates*MAT_126 add corotational local coord. system for formulation-1Add V option for aopt=3,4–…
Running LS-DYNA jobs (either interactively or as a batch job) can be interrupted with sense-switch controls by creating files “d3kil”, “D3KIL” and “switch” in the running directory. This works as expected without the use of any “jobid” definition. However, when using a jobid parameter either using *KEYWORD_ID or in the command line (jobid=jobname), LS-DYNA expects…
It is well known that the presence of initial penetrations can spoil the accuracy of the analysis. A few days ago, while working on ODB barrier, some strange spikes in energies was suspicious even with IGNORE turned on. To understand this, I simply did a simple shakedown and generated some 100 d3plots to capture the…
Came across this nice article (PDF, 101kb) about inertia tensors.
