Its been a while since my last post. I wanted to take the time to share that I will be teaching an LS-DYNA Class in Detroit, Michigan. You can visit Registration for more information. FEA Information will be including more information on this in its next publication.
LS-PrePost development version 3.2 is now released for Macs. Below is a screenshot of LS-PrePost running on a MacBook Pro. You can download it Here Click to Enlarge:
I will be attending the upcoming LS-DYNA Update meeting in Pune (May 3, 2011) and Bangalore (May 5, 2011). You can find more information at LS-DYNA Update meeting . If you are in Pune or Bangalore, it will be great to see you there.
When modeling low-density foams, it is important to consider potential failure under tensile loading. In LS-DYNA, the most popular constitutive material model is MAT_LOW_DENSITY_FOAM (MAT_057), in which the default treatment of foams under tensile loading is linear with no failure. The Elastic Modulus (Emax) in tension is computed to be the max( max(slope of the…
When friction is enabled in contact treatment using static or dynamic fricition coefficients (FS, FD in *CONTACT), the energy dissipated due to friction can be recorded and visualized. The parameter that tells LS-DYNA to ouput the frictional energy is FRCENG in *CONTROL_CONTACT. FRCENG by default is set to 0 to ignore the recording and output…
With the recent growth of multi-core chips, scalibility of pure MPP LS-DYNA beyond 128 cores has shown degration due to several factors including latency and network communications. LSTC has recently developed a new code named “Hybrid LS-DYNA” that provides sustained scalibility for large number of cores and also yields digit-2-digit repeatibility when changing the number…
Several of you requested the manual pages for the newly developed tabulated Johnson-Cook constitutive law now labeled as MAT_224. Here are the three pages of the keyword manual. MAT224 All Pages [ Click the image to enlarge] MAT224 Page 1 [ Click the image to enlarge] MAT224 Page 2 [ Click the image to enlarge]…
Most orthotropic material rely on the parameter AOPT to define the change/update the default material axes defined by LS-DYNA. The default axis for every shell element is based on the order of the node numbers if INN=0 which is then based on N1-N2 and the cross-product of N1-N2 and N1-N4. The default material axes may…
Finding a good material law can sometimes be a daunting task even for experienced users. To facilitate a quick review of possible material laws for a given material criteria, a LS-DYNA Material Law Browser was created for personal use and I hope its useful for others. Please send any feedback you may have at info@d3view.com
Over six months ago, two students, Rob Moncur, pursuing his MS, and Satyan Chandra, pursuing his UnderGraduate Studies, in Brigham Young University (BYU) set out on a path to build a LS-DYNA crash-analysis model of the PACE F1 car in under 8 weeks. Under the guidance of their professor, Dr. Greg Jensen, and with minimum…
