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LS-DYNA delivers a diverse array of analyses with extremely fast and efficient parallelization.
Ansys LS-DYNA is the industry-leading explicit simulation software used for applications like drop tests, impact and penetration, smashes and crashes, occupant safety, and more.
Ansys LS-DYNA is the most used explicit simulation program in the world and is capable of simulating the response of materials to short periods of severe loading. Its many elements, contact formulations, material models and other controls can be used to simulate complex models with control over all the details of the problem. Ansys LS-DYNA applications include:
LS-DYNA delivers a diverse array of analyses with extremely fast and efficient parallelization.
July 2023
Set up simplified and multiple cases for a model via a single analysis system containing different configurations for drop – which can solve simultaneously. Case support extends to additional boundary conditions: fixed support, displacement, and velocity.
Meshing enhancements include quality improvements (TET, HEX) and workflow improvements (multizone performance, quality worksheet enhancements, defeaturing, new stacker meshing method).
Gain improved performance insights of virtual prototypes and enable advanced post-processing within Mechanical by accessing the results in the time history file of LS-DYNA (Binout). These can be modified further to create derived charts with operations like integration and differentiation.
ISPH innovations include a new utility tool to process SpaceClaim data, better visualization, the ability to record the time history of FSI forces, removal of volume-constrained resources (i.e., Gearbox analysis), heat transfer coefficient calculation for import to Mechanical and Fluent and SPH box fragmentation.
New capabilities include solder reflow simulation, multiscale modeling, and Sherlock to LS-DYNA workflow.
Predict the combined structural, electrical, electrochemical, and thermal responses (EET) of automotive batteries following abuse with a new comprehensive battery safety workflow.
Using simulation, doctors can determine the magnitude and location of brain strains, enabling them to improve concussion treatment.
Clinicians are unclear about how to measure the damage incurred by head impacts. Concussions diagnosed by magnetic resonance images (MRIs), computed tomography (CT) scans and blood tests often deliver inconclusive results.
Dr. Michael Power leads clinical care at Beaumont Hospital in Dublin, Ireland, which specializes in the treatment of head injuries — many of which occur during contact sports. Several years ago, he aligned with CADFEM Ireland — Ansys’ channel partner in Ireland — on a mission that would combine engineering simulation with clinical expertise to research the mechanisms of concussion. They sought to understand whether simulation software could help define the causes of concussions, reduce their number and improve concussion treatment.
LS-DYNA CAPABILITIES
Engineers can tackle simulations involving material failure and look at how the failure progresses through a part or through a system. Models with large amounts of parts or surfaces interacting with each other are also easily handled, and the interactions and load passing between complex behaviors are modeled accurately. Using computers with higher numbers of CPU cores can drastically reduce solution times.
LS-DYNA elements, contact formulations, material models and other controls can be used to simulate complex models with control over all the details of the problem.
Easily switch between Implicit and Explicit solvers for your different runs.
Frequency domain analysis allows LS-Dyna users to explore capabilities such as frequency response function, steady state dynamics, random vibration, response spectrum analysis, acoustics BEM and FEM, and fatigue SSD and random vibration. You can use these capabilities for applications such as NVH, acoustic analysis, defense industry, fatigue analysis and earthquake engineering.
ICFD solver is a stand-alone CFD code that includes a steady-state solver, transient solver, turbulence model for RANS/LES, free surface flows and isotropic/anisotropic porous media flow. Coupled to structural, EM solver and thermal solver.
EM solves the Maxwell equations using FEM & BEM in the Eddy current approximation. This is suitable for cases where the propagation of electromagnetic waves in air (or vacuum) can be considered as instantaneous. The main applications are magnetic metal forming or welding, induced heating, and battery abuse simulation.
Multiphysics Solver include ICFD for Incompressible Fluids, electromagnetic solver, EM for battery abuse, and CESE for compressible fluids.
There are several particle methods using LS-Dyna. AIRBAG_PARTICLE is used for for airbag gas particles which models the gas as a set of rigid particles in random motion. PARTICLE_BLAST for high explosive particles which models high explosive gas and air modeled Particle gas. Discrete element method includes applications such as agriculture and food handling, chemical and civil Engineering, mining, mineral processing.
In LS-DYNA, a contact is defined by identifying (via parts, part sets, segment sets, and/or node sets) what locations are to be checked for potential penetration of a slave node through a master segment. A search for penetrations, using any of a number of different algorithms, is made every time. In the case of a penalty-based contact, when a penetration is found, a force proportional to the penetration depth is applied to resist, and ultimately eliminate the penetration. Rigid bodies may be included in any penalty-based contact but for that contact force to be realistically distributed, it is recommended that the mesh defining any rigid body be as fine as that of a deformable body.
Several tools are provided for local refinement of the volume mesh in order to better capture mesh sensitive phenomenon’s such as turbulent eddies or boundary layer separation reattachment. During the geometry set up, the user can define surfaces that will be used by the mesher to specify a local mesh size inside the volume. If no internal mesh is used to specify the size, the mesher will use a linear interpolation of the surface sizes that define the volume enclosure.
SPH method in Ansys LS-DYNA® is coupled with the finite and discrete element methods, extending its range of applications to a variety of complex problems involving multiphysics interactions of explosion or fluid-structure interaction.
Ansys LS-DYNA has two different classes of mesh-free particle solvers: continuum-based smooth particle hydrodynamics (SPH), and discrete particle solvers using the discrete element method (DEM), the particle blast method (PBM) and the corpuscular particle method (CPM). These solvers are used in various applications like hypervelocity impacts; explosions; friction stir welding; water wading; fracture analysis in car windshields, window glass and composite materials; metal friction drilling; metal machining; and high-velocity impact on concrete and metal targets.
Peridynamics & SPG
The smoothed particle Galerkin (SPG) method is a new Lagrangian particle method for simulating the severe plastic deformation and material rupture taken place in ductile material failure. The Peridynamics method is another compelling method for brittle fracture analysis in isotropic materials as well as certain composites such as CFRP. These two numerical methods share a common feature in modeling the 3D material failure using a bond-based failure mechanism. Since the material erosion technique is no more necessary, the simulation of the material failure processes becomes very effective and stable.
Isogeometric Analysis (IGA)
The isogeometric paradigm employs basis functions from computer-aided design (CAD) for numerical analysis. The actual geometry of the CAD parts is preserved which is in sharp contrast to finite element analysis (FEA) where the geometry is approximated with, potentially higher-order, polynomials. Isogeometric analysis (IGA) has been extensively studied in the past few years in order to (1) reduce the effort of moving between design and analysis representations and (2) obtain higher-order accuracy through the higher-order interelement continuity of the spline basis functions used in CAD. LS-DYNA is the first commercial code to support IGA through the implementation of generalized elements and then keywords supporting non-uniform rational B-splines (NURBS). Many of the standard FEA capabilities, such as contact, spot-weld models, anisotropic constitutive laws, or frequency domain analysis, are readily available in LS-DYNA with new features added steadily.
LS-OPT
Ansys LS-OPT is a standalone design optimization and probabilistic analysis package with an interface to Ansys LS-DYNA. It is difficult to achieve an optimal design because design objectives are often in conflict. LS-OPT uses a systematic approach involving an inverse process for design optimization: First you specify the criteria and then you compute the best design according to a mathematical framework.
Probabilistic analysis is necessary when a design is subjected to structural and environmental input variations that cause a variation in response that may lead to undesirable behavior or failure. A probabilistic analysis, using multiple simulations, assesses the effect of the input variation on the response variation and determines the probability of failure.
Together, design optimization and probabilistic analysis help you to reach an optimal product design quickly and easily, saving time and money in the process.
Typical applications of LS-OPT include:
LS-TaSC
LS-TaSC™ is a Topology and Shape Computation tool. Developed for engineering analysts who need to optimize structures, LS-TaSC works with both the implicit and explicit solvers of LS-DYNA. LS-TaSC handles topology optimization of large nonlinear problems, involving dynamic loads and contact conditions.
Dummies
Anthropomorphic Test Devices (ATDs), as known as "crash test dummies", are life-size mannequins equipped with sensors that measure forces, moments, displacements, and accelerations. These measurements can then be interpreted to predict the extent of injuries that a human would experience during an impact. Ideally, ATDs should behave like real human beings while being durable enough to produce consistent results across multiple impacts. There are a wide variety of ATDs available to represent different human sizes and shapes.
Barriers
LSTC offers several Offset Deformable Barrier (ODB) and Movable Deformable Barrier (MDB) models. LSTC ODB and MDB models are developed to correlate to several tests provided by our customers. These tests are proprietary data and are not currently available to the public.
Tires
LST jointly developed tire models with FCA. These models can be downloaded through the LST, Models download section. The models are based on a series of material, verification, and component level tests. The finite element mesh is based on 2D CAD data of the tire section. All major components of the tire use 8-noded hexahedron elements. The elastomers are modeled using *MAT_SIMPLIFIED_RUBBER and the plies are modeled using *MAT_ORTHOTROPIC_ELASTIC.
LS-DYNA RESOURCES
Join us for this webinar to understand battery behavior under normal operating conditions and abuse conditions to optimize battery designs with Ansys LS-DYNA.
In November 2019, Ansys acquired LSTC, the authors of the explicit finite element code LS-DYNA. Ansys LS-DYNA is the most used explicit simulation program, capable of simulating the response of materials to short periods of severe loading.
This webinar presents the use of Ansys LS-DYNA for predicting the vibration caused by trains based on wheel and rail roughness modeling.
Discover how using Ansys LS-DYNA and Ansys optiSLang in tandem meets rising automation demands by joining powerful solvers and providing an opportunity to map and share data between them for advanced optimization and sensitivity investigation.
Learn about the unique capabilities and features of LS-DYNA to efficiently model impact and drop tests.
In this webinar, the BatMac model will be presented along with the test setup and model development. Additionally, capabilities, limitations and future improvement of the battery safety modeling are discussed.