LS-DYNA

LS-DYNA (Transient Dynamic Analysis)

Overview
LS-DYNA by Livermore Software
Technology Corporation (LSTC) is a general
purpose multiphysics simulation software
package capable of simulating complex real
world problems. It is widely used in the
automotive industry for crashworthiness and
occupant safety, also for sheet metal
forming, and in the aerospace industry to
simulate bird strike, jet engine blade
containment and structural failure. LS-
DYNA comes with LS-PrePost and LS-OPT.
LS-PrePost is an advanced interactive
program for preparing input data for LS-
DYNA and processing the results from LS-
DYNA analyses. LS-OPT allows the user to Capabilities:
structure the design process, explore the Material Library:
design space and compute optimal designs • Metals
according to the specified constraints and • Plastics
objectives. • Glass
• Foams
Solution Types: • Fabrics
• Nonlinear dynamics • Elastomers
• Rigid body dynamics • Honeycombs
• Quasi-static simulations • Composites
• Normal modes • Concrete & soils
• Linear statics • High explosives
• Thermal analysis • Propellants
• Fluid analysis • Viscous fluids
• Eulerian capabilities • User-defined materials
• ALE (Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian)
• Fluid-structure interactions Element Library:
• FEM-rigid multi-body dynamics coupling • Solids
(MADYMO, CAL3D) • 8-node thick shell
• Underwater shock • 4-node shells
• Failure analysis • Beams
• Crack propagation • Welds
• Real-time acoustics • Discrete zero length beams
• Design optimization • Trusses and cables
• Implicit springback • Nodal masses
• Multiphysics coupling • Lumped inertias
• Structural-thermal coupling
• Adaptive remeshing
• Smooth particle hydrodynamics
• Element-free meshless method

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Contact Algorithms: • Multi-stage processes
• Flexible body contact
• Flexible body to rigid body contact Military and Defense Applications:
• Rigid body to rigid body contact • Penetration (projectile and armor)
• Edge-to-edge contact • Explosives
• Eroding contact • Weapon design
• Tied surfaces • Underwater simulations (using USA
• Rigid walls coupling)
• Draw beads • Hazardous
• Waste containment
Specialized Automotive Features:
• Seatbelts Aerospace Applications:
• Slip Rings • Blade containment
• Pretensioners • Bird strike (windshield and engine
• Retractors blade)
• Sensors • Failure analysis
• Accelerometers
• Airbags Other Applications:
• Hybrid III dummy models • Drop testing
• Inflator models • Can and shipping container design
• Electronic component design
• Glass forming
• Plastics, mold and blow forming
• Biomedical
• Metal cutting
• Earthquake engineering
• Sports equipment (golf clubs and balls,
baseball bats, helmets)
• Civil engineering (offshore platforms,
pavement design)

Platforms:
• PC
Applications: • Linux
Automotive Crashworthiness & Occupant • Unix
Safety:
• Predicts car’s behavior in a collision and Add-ons:
the effects of the collision upon the car’s LS-PrePost:
occupants • Prepares input data for LS-DYNA and
• Eliminates the experimental testing of processes results from LS-DYNA
prototypes, thus saving time and analyses
expense • Utilizes OpenGL graphics standard to
achieve fast rendering and XY plotting
Sheet Metal Forming:
• Predicts the stresses and deformations LS-OPT:
experienced by the metal, and • Graphically interfaces with LS-DYNA
determines if the metal will fail • Provides an environment to specify
• Refines the mesh during the analysis, optimization input, monitor and control
as necessary, to increase accuracy and parallel simulations and post-process
save time optimization data as well as viewing
• Types of metal forming applications multiple designs using LS-PrePost
• Metal stamping
• Hydroforming
• Forging
• Deep drawing
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