LS-DYNA R12

for ANSYS 2020R2 Student Package

Contents 2. LS-DYNA R12

• double precision,
1 Overview 1 • 128,000 elements,
• and 4 SMP threads
2 Documentation & Examples 1
3. LS-PrePost 4.7
3 LS-DYNA, LS-PrePost, & LS-Run 2 4. LS-Run 1.0
4 Interactive LS-DYNA using
LS-Run 2
2 Documentation &
Examples
1 Overview
This documentation and examples
When installed together with ANSYS folder contains:
Student 2020R2 this package provides:

Figure 1: Items added to the start menu
1. Documents & Examples
• LS-DYNA manuals
• tutorials
• example input files
Figure 2: Items added to the start menu
benchmarks.exe
A self-extracting archive that con-
tains some standard LS-DYNA
benchmark problems

1
examples.exe 4 Interactive LS-DYNA
A self-extracting archive that con- using LS-Run
tains some examples
Checking the box below
guidelines.exe
A self-extracting archive that con-
tains some examples with an em-
phasis on how to set up a problem
causes LS-Run to interactively show LS-
tutorial.exe Dyna’s output. One cautionary note:
LS-Run uses the command prompt win-
A self-extracting archive that con- dow, in which (accidently) selecting
tains a tutorial based on a sequence text will cause LS-DYNA to suspend execu-
of simple examples tion. Exercise care when using this fea-
ture.
The PDF files
The LS-DYNA reference manual

3 LS-DYNA, LS-PrePost,
& LS-Run
LS-DYNA R12 when used in connection
with the ANSYS student license sup-
ports models of up to 128,000 elements
running with 4 cores using shared mem-
ory parallel.
LS-DYNA is a Windows command-
line program. LS-Run is a graphical pro-
gram that can spawn, monitor, and pro-
cess LS-DYNA simulations.
This installer sets up a shortcut la-
beled as “LS-DYNA PowerShell”. It
starts up a shell configured with aliases
pointing to LS-DYNA, LS-PrePost, and
LS-Run so that that you can invoke them
as “lsdyna”, “lspp”, and “lsrun” re-
spectively. For those who would rather
run LS-DYNA from a graphical user in-
terface, this installer also installs and
configures LS-Run with its correspond-
ing LS-DYNA and LS-PrePost installa-
tions. You can also find LS-PrePost and
LS-Run in the start menu.