r/LSDYNA

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Guidance for LS-DYNA

Hello people,

I am stuck in a very worst condition in terms of my project, I was required to compute and interpreter a model in LS-DYNA but I am unable to do so as the interface of the software is so much difficult for me to understand, I don't have much time left for the submission and I am not understanding how to help myself. Please can someone guide me with it?

Currently I am working on crack propagation of NSCB model through Mohr coulomb. I have experimental data available with me, I just need to verify it by numerical analysis for which I am required to deal with this particular software.

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u/nameisriiu — 17 hours ago
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Help with LS-DYNA Foam impact simulation

Hello, I need to do a project for my degree with LS-Dyna, that consists in a impact test against the foam of a car head-retraint. I have the CAD created and the .k file also, but i have never used LS-Dyna and I also do not have the time required to learn it.

I think for someone with experience in this software it may be a really simple simulation, as i don't need any professional results, just a believable simulation, and it shouldn't take much time.

Of course if someone can help me i would be happy to pay something in reward. You can DM me if more details are needed

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u/NySs62 — 1 day ago
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History variables in LS-Dyna

I am working on timber-concrete composites which fail in either shear or compression. I have gone through the DATABASE_EXTENT_BINARY for my materials. I can see the failure using the history variables, but the damage mode is still not clear as if it is shear or compression.

I want to learn more about it, because I think that I am unable to interpret the results of history variables.

Can someone suggest any informative source about the history variables in LS-Dyna other than the LS-Dyna manuals and dynasupport site?

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Massive Negative Contact Energy + Element Unstability?

Alright guys, this issue has been plaguing me for a long time now. This issue re-appears randomly under certain conditions, I think it is related to penetrator diameter vs armor laminate thickness.

As you can see, our energy becomes insanely negative for contact energy and then everything loses control from there. The elements of the laminate deteriorate and erode themselves far away from the impact area.

The laminate ELFORM = 2, Hourglass ID 2 and 6 were tried, same issue, Element size at center is ~0.0001m, material is a UHMWPE using MAT_003 and *CONTACT_AUTOMATIC_SURFACE_TO_SURFACE_TIEBREAK as the epoxy between the 1mm layers.

The strangest thing is, everything works on most models and I have calibrated the numerical model of it. Yet something is going wrong, and I am not sure what.

Anyone ever see this before?

u/Homeboi-Jesus — 8 days ago