Advanced Explicit Structural Mechanics with LS-DYNA
For dynamic engineers "simple" is just not good enough
In this training, you learn the best modeling options for explicit calculations with contact, non-linear materials, and failure. This training is offered as a 3-day course.
Duration
3 days
Prerequisites
Basic knowledge of LS-Dyna
Software used
Ansys LS-Dyna
- Learning comprehensive modeling options with LS-DYNA
- Deciding which modeling is the best for which application
- Increasing the accuracy, robustness, and efficiency of simulations
- Opening up entirely new fields of application
Description
Are you already using LS-DYNA, but want to get even more out of your simulations? Then this training is perfect for you. The course covers the topics of “robust and effective contact modeling,” “non-linear material behavior and failure modeling,” “modeling adhesive bonding technologies,” and “examining and evaluating explicit simulations”.
You will learn about the comprehensive modeling options offered by LS-DYNA and be able to decide which options are the most appropriate for your application. This will allow you to increase the accuracy, robustness, and efficiency of simulations and may help open up entirely new fields of application.
The training is aimed at simulation engineers with some initial experience of LS-DYNA and who now wish to dive deeper into explicit non-linear structural dynamics.
Detailed agenda for this 3-day training
Day 1
01 The diversity of contact types in LS-DYNA
- The difference between nodes and surface options
- The magical world of AUTOMATIC contacts
- Handling shells and beams
- Which options can be used for which contact types?
- Recommendations for standard settings
02 Function and use of penalty- and constraint-based contacts
- The theory and properties of penalty contacts
- Optimal adjustment of contact stiffness and damping
- Handling initial penetration, wanted and unwanted
- When are constraint-based contacts a good idea?
03 Node or area-based contact search: when to choose what?
- Symmetrical or asymmetrical contact, more is not always better
- The efforts and benefits of SOFT2 and MORTAR contacts
- Smoothing faceted contact surfaces
- Contact with element failure
- Considering and evaluating friction
04 Troubleshooting: when the contact doesn’t do what I want
- Debugging options in Output
- Displaying and interpreting contact results in the Interface Force file
- Understanding contact energies
- Finding the positions of contact bugs and rectifying the causes
- Special contacts: Stonewalls, analytical contact bodies, and slide guides
Day 2
05 Permanent connections
- Efficient model creation with TIED contacts
- Contact selection for robust, reliable, accurate modeling
- Penalty or constraint procedures
- Avoiding overdeterminacy
- Models with solids, shells, and beams
06 Adhesive bonded connections with failure
- TIEBREAK contacts and cohesive elements
- Failure models with and without damage
- Connection techniques for solids and shells
- Modeling decomposition
- Evaluation in the Interface Force file
07 Spot welds and seams, bolts and rivets
- Mesh-independent weld spot modeling
- The pros and cons of beam and solid modeling
- Different ideas for weld seams: what needs to be evaluated?
- Bolts as beams or solids, with and without prestress
08 Testing and evaluating explicit simulations
- General model check with the Message files
- Energy balance check
- Force and moment balance check
- Hourglass and mass scaling check
- Filtering forces and acceleration
- Recommended Solver settings
Day 3
09 Material characterization and mechanical principles
- The diversity of material models in LS-DYNA, an overview
- Hyper- and hypoelasticity
- Strain and stresses, principle and equivalent values
- The significance and evaluation of history variables
10 Elasticity and plasticity
- Isotropic and anisotropic elasticity
- Plasticity and yield theory – von Mises
- Isotropic and kinematic hardening
- Viscoplasticity
- Handling softening
- Anisotropic plasticity
- Two-parameter models: Mohr-Coulomb and Drucker-Prager
11 Material and element failures in connection with damage models
- The difference between materials failure and element erosion
- Failure criteria, defined locally or globally
- Damage models in accordance with Gurson and GISSMO
- Mesh dependence on failure and its regularization
12 Hyperelasticity, foams, and plastics
- Rubber modeling with Mooney-Rivlin and Ogden models
- Considering viscosity and internal friction
- Elastic foams – comfort foam
- Plastic foams – energy absorption
- Plastics: Special characteristics, options, and limits
Your Trainers
Dr.-Ing. Ulrich Stelzmann
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