Starting 971, LS-DYNA allows the direct input of the physical accelerometer mass in the *ELEMENT_SEATBELT_ACCELEROMETER keyword which is lumped equally to the three nodes that is used in defining the accelerometer. This eliminates the need to create additional *ELEMENT_MASS keywords to account for the physical accelerometer mass.
In many situations, we tend to change the mesh density to study its effect on simulation responses. Two issues things that are seldom addressed are the contact thickness and the mass-scaling which blend in with the true effects of the mesh refinement. As stated in some of the earlier posts, LS-DYNA computes the contact thickness…
Over the last few years, the simplicity of defining a global AUTOMATIC_SINGLE_SURFACE contact to treat the interactions between multiple parts of varying stiffnesses and element types has changed the way we model contact interfaces. They are not only simple to define but also promote better modeling since they hugely eliminate the need to manually identify…
Recently, there was a request to ouput the principal stresses for each element at lower and upper surfaces of each shell element in DYNAIN file to use in some failure theories. I beleive this feature is a routine output in PamStamp simulations. To enable this, the attached ‘C’ code can be used that reads in…
A new and improved rigid hybrid III dummy is available in beta version. If you are interested in beta testing of this dummy, please contact Sarba (sarba@lstc.com) for more information. The dummy is provided at no charge if you already have an existing license of LS-DYNA.
Came across this nice presentation by Dr. David Benson.
While converting true-stress vs true-strain curve into effective stress vs effective plastic strain, the removal of elastic strains can be based on a constant or varying strain value. For relatively small hardening, both methods should yield identical plastic strains but significant hardening, using an instantaneous elastic strain as opposed to a constant elastic strain is…
When requesting interface binary file, which consists of a number of useful data such as pressure/friction_energy, etc that can be contour plotted, LS-DYNA by default outputs these variables for ALL segments included in the SINGLE SURFACE contact. Visualizing the output can be tedious since it involves recursive blanking to expose the inner regions of interest…
In an earlier post on simulation based product design we saw that in many cases a large portion of effort early on in the design cycle is usually spent on determining the best practices to simulate a physical event. We can speed up such simulations by the discrete variable support in LS-OPT version 3.1. An…
Here is a simple way to prescribe sinusoidal motion using *DEFINE_CURVE_FUNCTION. *PARAMETER ramp, 10.0 rfreq, 600 rshift, 0.0 *DEFINE_CURVE_FUNCTION curve_id &*sin(&freq*TIME+&shift) The parameter “amp” is the amplitude, “freq” is the frequency of the oscillation (2PI/T, T is the time period), and “shift” is the phase shift. TIME is the simulation time that will be replaced…
