Online Documentation
- Tutorial 1: Create an LS-DYNA input deck for a ball impacting a plate.
- Ball: solid elements, rigid material
- Plate: shell elements, edges constrained
- Ball Initial Velocity: 10mm/ms
- Tutorial 2: Create an LS-DYNA input deck for an s-rail impacting a rigidwall.
- S-Rail: shell elements, deformable material
- Rigidwall: stationary, planar
- S-Rail Initial Velocity: 10mm/ms
- Tutorial 3: Create an LS-DYNA input deck for a simple inflatable airbag.
- Airbag: shell elements, fabric material
- Constraints: none
- Tutorial 5: Create an LS-DYNA input deck for a metal-forming simulation.
- Warning: This tutorial is essentially obsolete. See tutorial 17 for current metal-forming examples.
- This tutorial uses LSTC's updated Hybrid III Rigid 50th Percentile Dummy (see documentation in zip file below for more details).
- Part I: Thin fold
- Part II: Tuck fold / Thick fold
- Part III: Thin fold / Spiral fold
- Part I: Simple belt
- Part II: Mixed belt
- Part III: Spiral wrap
- Topics covered:
- Head Injury Criterion (HIC)
- Chest Severity Index (CSI)
- Node topics covered:
- Create, Replace, Align, Remove Duplicate
- Element topics covered:
- Create, Delete, Split, Smooth, Translate, Reflect
- Curve topics covered:
- Create from ASCII Data, Filter, Invert, Cross-plot, Save as Text, Save as Image
- Curve topics covered:
- Create, Join, Sweep Mesh, n-Line Mesh, Part Trim
- Surface topics covered:
- Create, Mesh
- Topics covered:
- Explicit to eigenvalue conversion
- Eigenvalue to implicit conversion
- Shell generation topics covered:
- By Solid Face, By Solid Surface
- Solid generation topics covered:
- By Shell Offset, By Shell Drag, Between Shell Layers
- Tutorial 15: Introduction to various Page 1 post-processing tools.
- Topics covered:
- Follow, Trace, Anno, SPlane, Vector, Fcomp, Range, Blank, History, Model
- Tutorial 17: Introduction to MetalForming Interface.
- Interface Used: Applications > MetalForming
