LS-DYNA Examples Blog by Student Qui

Update The blog no longer seems to exist. I recently came across a nice blog written by QUI. It is remarkable that he is willing to share examples and his experiences in LS-DYNA. The broad spectrum of LS-DYNA applications can never be fully covered by a single blog or a small set of publications. It…

April 30, 2010 | by

Unloading in MAT_FABRIC (MAT_034)

This is a post by Guest Author Satish Pathy who works full time for LSTC In *MAT_FABRIC, element formulation 4 & 14 will allow you to input unloading curve for the material. Recently in a model it was noticed, that when a large compressive stress develops in the fibers, lsdyna would release some of these…

April 15, 2010 | by

Mass scaling for MAT_SPOTWELD elements

Deformable spotwelds modeled using beams or solids elements can invariably limit the global timestep due to its small dimensions. LS-DYNA provides two methods to scale the spotweld timestep. The first method is the well-known global mass-scaling using DT2MS in CONTROL_TIMSESTEP. When DT2MS is non-zero (usually a negative number), the density of the spotwelds are modified…

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