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At this site you will find answers to basic and advanced questions that might occur while using LS-DYNA. Furthermore it will provide information about new releases and ongoing developments. The content will be regularly updated with answers to frequent questions related to LS-DYNA. LS-DYNAsupport will not provide information on activities of your local LS-DYNA distributor as seminars, promotions, etc. We may ask to check the local sites for any kind of non-technical information.
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HowTos
- Implicit: Mortar Contact
- Some guidelines for implicit analyses using LS-DYNA
- Implicit: Recommendation on solid element formulation
- Implicit: Memory notes
- Implicit: Loads on rigidbodies
- General remarks on implicit time integration
- Switching from implicit to explicit
- Implicit: Dynamic relaxation
- Implicit: Convergence
- Implicit: Contact treatment
FAQs
- What are the differences between implicit and explicit?
- Modell Check / Initialisation Run
- Install a New Network License (Microsoft Windows)
- Upgrade a Network License (Microsoft Windows)
- How can nodal accelerations be evaluated in LS-DYNA?
- Will the mesh coarsening affect the accuracy of springback prediction?
- Why dynamic relaxation doesn’t seem to work at times?
- Why does the restart of the springback analysis not work?
- When we do springback analysis, we have two choices to do it, i.e. using implicit and explicit method (dynamic relaxation). What is the advantage of using the implicit method in springback analysis?
- When the constraint contact is used, the calculation crashes during the forming analysis. What needs to be done to prevent this?
Release Notes
- LS-DYNA R15.0.2 released (2024/03)
- LS-DYNA R15.0.1 released (2024/03)
- LS-DYNA R15.0.0 released (2024/02)
- LS-DYNA R13.1.0 released (2022/03)
- LS-DYNA R12.1.0 released (2021/11)
- LS-DYNA R11.2.2 released (2021/06)
- LS-DYNA R13.0.0 released (2021/10)
- LS-DYNA R11.2.1 released (2021/03)
- LS-DYNA R11.2.0 released (2020/12)
- LS-DYNA R12.0.0 (R12.148978; 2020/07) released