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…
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…
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…
Control cards are often handy to overwrite local values. A good example would be if we need all parts to use a certain element formulation THEORY which is specified in *CONTROL_SHELL. As with any global control cards that manipulate local values, the global values specified in *CONTROL keywords are used ONLY if the local values…
LS-DYNA allows the modeling of rigid-bodies by assigning any part with the MAT_RIGID material law (MAT_020). This is by far the most easiest method available when compared with all finite element codes. When using MAT_RIGID, there are three distinct ways to model a rigid part and they are briefly explaine below. 1. Finite Element based…
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In traditional explicit analysis, there is no convergence criteria that is checked for each time step. However, in Implicit calculations, incremental displacements are evaluated such that a displacement norm and the energy norm are within a pre-defined tolerance before convergence is assumed to be obtained. This is the so-called iterative scheme in Implicit Non-Linear Analyses…
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When nodes are involved in both contact (penalty) and prescribed motion, contact failure is expected to occur. This is because the boundary conditions are always processed after all the contacts are handled that results in nodal accelerations being updated to enforce the boundary conditions. I will soon publish some examples to illustrate this phenomenon.
