try to use mortar contact. check your unit consistency system ... use the latest version of the solver . recently our team had did a similar case...

thanks for sharing. its really a useful website

ALE modeling with frequency response of the model might help.

use only the Frontal part as shown in the attached pic. there is a model in full car model in lsdyna example website. use this. keep the required...

spring constant or stiffness is K=AE/L A= area E=youngs modulus L=length

hi in GLSTAT : 16 ,17 , 18 option helps you to judge the mass added on the system and its effect 16 : step size : this is should help you understand ...

@mirko094 you need to do the analysis in two steps in Ls-Dyna: 1st step : Preloading of gravity , moment : write dynain file output 2nd step : use th...

@davidszonyi sometimes the contact forces are not recorded properly because of version . try installing latest version and use latest executables. als...

@davidszonyi sometimes the contact forces are not recorded properly because of version . try installing latest version and use latest executables. als...

for explicit analysis : Lsdyna is far better than any other software . Its ease of building any model and robustness is expectational, Material librar...

@groll i will send an example , send your email id

contact me on geardyn.1@gmail.com, i can send you some more pdfs

Hello , Bird strike analysis requires a little bit learning of lsdyna in order to debug the impact behaviour. i would suggest you to go through the ex...