LS-DYNA 971 R7.0.0 x64

LS-DYNA is a general-purpose finite element program capable of simulating complex real world problems. It is used by the automobile, aerospace, construction, military, manufacturing, and bioengineering industries. LS-DYNA is optimized for shared and distributed memory Unix, Linux, and Windows based, platforms, and it is fully QA'd by LSTC. The code's origins lie in highly nonlinear, transient dynamic finite element analysis using explicit time integration.

LS-DYNA consists of a single executable file and is entirely command line driven. Therefore all that is required to run LS-DYNA is a command shell, the executable, an input file, and enough free disk space to run the calculation. All input files are in simple ASCII format and thus can be prepared using any text editor. Input files can also be prepared with the aid of a graphical preprocessor.

There are many third party software products available for preprocessing LS-DYNA input files. LSTC also develops its own preprocessor, LS-PrePost, which is freely distributed and runs without a license. Licensees of LS-DYNA automatically have access to all of the program's capabilities, from simple linear static mechanical analysis up to advanced thermal and flow solving methods. Furthermore, they have full use of LS-OPT, a standalone design optimization and probabilistic analysis package with an interface to LS-DYNA.
Capabilities

LS-DYNA's analysis capabilities include:
- Full 2D & 3D capabilities
- Nonlinear dynamics
- Rigid body dynamics
- Quasi-static simulations
- Normal modes
- Linear statics
- Thermal analysis
- Fluid analysis
- Eulerian capabilities
- ALE (Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian)
- FSI (Fluid-Structure Interaction)
- Navier-Stokes fluids
- Compressible fluid solver, CESE (Conservation Element & Solution Element)
- FEM-rigid multi-body dynamics coupling (MADYMO, Cal3D)
- Underwater shock
- Failure analysis
- Crack propagation
- Real-time acoustics
- Implicit springback
- Multi-physics coupling
- Structural-thermal coupling
- Adaptive remeshing
- SPH (Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics)
- EFG (Element Free Galerkin)
- Radiation transport
- EM (Electromagnetism)


Material Library
LS-DYNA's material library includes:
- Metals
- Plastics
- Glass
- Foams
- Fabrics
- Elastomers
- Honeycombs
- Concrete & soils
- Viscous fluids
- User-defined materials

Element Library
LS-DYNA's element library includes:
- Beams (standard, trusses, discrete, cables, and welds) (with over 10 beam element formulations)
- Discrete Elements (springs and dampers)
- Lumped inertias
- Lumped masses
- Accelerometers
- Sensors
- Seatbelts
- Pretensioners
- Retractors
- Sliprings
- Shells (3, 4, 6, and 8-node including 3D shells, membranes, 2D plane stress, plane strain, and axisymmetric solids) (with over 25 shell element formulations)
- Solids (4 and 10-node tetrahedrons, 6-node pentahedrons, and 8-node hexahedrons) (with over 20 solid element formulations)
- SPH Elements
- Thick Shells (8-node)

Contact Algorithms
LS-DYNA's contact algorithms include:
- Flexible body contact
- Flexible body to rigid body contact
- Rigid body to rigid body contact
- Edge-to-edge contact
- Eroding contact
- Tied surfaces
- CAD surfaces
- Rigid walls
- Draw beads