LS-DYNA is suitable for simulating nonlinear processes with large deformations, stability problems and highly complex contact scenarios.
LSTC LS-DYNA: Simulation of short-duration dynamic effects and highly nonlinear problems
Using the explicit time integration method within LS-DYNA, very fast and highly dynamic problems can be effectively simulated. LS-DYNA is also suitable for quasi static problems involving high nonlinearities wherein implicit time integration method cannot be used because of convergence issues.
LS-DYNA for arbitrarily nonlinear structural dynamics
Simulation of very large deformations and the most complex contact scenarios
LSTC LS-DYNA solves tasks with complex nonlinearities and avoids convergence issues. For example, short-duration dynamic applications, such as drop, impact and crash simulations, can be performed, e.g. nonlinear processes with large deformations, stability problems and complex contact problems.
Highlights at a glance
- The most commonly used explicit solver, practically the industry standard
- Multitude of computational functions
- Accident analysis for damage limitation
- Forming processes with large deformations
- Multibody dynamics with nonlinear deformations
- Assembly processes with stability problems
- Simulation of post-critical behavior after reaching the critical point of failure

Very fast, dynamic processes can be effectively simulated with LS-DYNA.
Short-duration dynamic applications, such as drop, impact and crash simulations, can be performed with LS-DYNA, e.g. nonlinear processes with large deformations, stability problems and complex contact scenarios.

Frontal impact with a deformable barrier
The model of a Toyota Yaris comes from the National Crash Analysis Center (NCAC) of The George Washington University, while the barrier model comes from LSTC.

Water-filled barrel drop test
The structure, modeled using Lagrange elements, can adopt highly nonlinear deformations.

Simulation of a bird strike on a turbine blade
The foreign object is extremely severely deformed and is therefore modeled using the SPH particle method.
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