HowTos

• Accuracy
• Consistent units
• Contact Energy
• Cross section
• Damping
• Double precision
• Effective plastic strain
• Environment variables
• Equation of state
• Extra history variables

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• ALE history variables
• Anisotropic plasticity models
• Cohesive material models
• Composite models
• Concrete models
• Define composites
• Eulerian method; basics
• From engineering to true strain, true stress
• History Variables for Certain Material Models
• Material model for TRIP-steels

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• Beam
• Cohesive element formulation
• Coordinate system for stress
• Discrete Beam
• Hourglass
• Negative volumes in brick elements
• Shell Formulations
• Shell offset
• Shell output
• Shell Strain

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• Contact between Beam and Shell Elements
• Contact overview
• Contact stiffness influenced by time step size
• Contact thickness
• Contact timestep
• EDGE-to-EDGE Contact
• Force transducer
• Initial Penetrations
• Shooting node
• SMOOTH option

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• Elements and material models available for implicit
• General remarks on implicit time integration
• Implicit: Contact treatment
• Implicit: Convergence
• Implicit: Dynamic relaxation
• Implicit: Loads on rigidbodies
• Implicit: Memory notes
• Implicit: Recommendation on solid element formulation
• Some guidelines for implicit analyses using LS-DYNA
• Switching from implicit to explicit

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• Find and remove initial penetrations