@ana Unfortunately, your only option with the student version is use the SMP version of LS-Dyna to run on a local machine. SMP stands for Shared Memor...

@mass yeah it should be the same with shell elements. To make this into a model with 2D elements, you could find the faces of the current mesh, which ...

Hi @joni_koplo, You will need to change the .k file to .txt before attaching. Sorry for any inconvenience. Regarding your d3plot issue, you could t...

@ana Absolutely. Like I said, you would just need to find material properties for the parts that you intend to analyze and determine the boundary cond...

@mass I agree with you that it doesn't make sense. It seems like the strain axis is 10x to large because then it would at least be in the range of the...

Hi @hitman_ondo, Meshing has a massive range in difficulty depending on what you are trying to accomplish. It also depends on what software you hav...

Hi @ana, First you need to think of what the goal of the study would be. Is it to study how the need insertion affects the flesh/vessel? Or are you...

Hi @mass, You won't be able to use that card as those mesh connections share nodes currently. You could do what you are proposing by splitting off ...

@delcon You could try to add some implicit cards to improve convergence. Try some of these guidelines and see if anything helps.

@fatihk Okay great to hear. Sometimes the issues can occur during the meshing process as well which may be why remeshing solved the issue. Also, check...

Hi @farshid-er, LSTC are continuously updating LS-Dyna and yes, a lot of times the changes can affect results substantially. It all depends on what...

@fatihk Just to attempt to isolate the problem, could you change the ELFORM of the part to ELFORM=2 and see if you still get an error?

@bjohnterry You'd need to run an implicit simulation and even then a 20 sec simulation may encounter some issues. What exactly are you trying to study...

@bill94 Ah I see. Yes to do this you would need to make that bottom surface of the part *Mat_rigid and define a local coordinate system to represent w...

@alpha754293 I see. sorry for the delayed response as I've been away on vacation. Personally, I don't run across this problem often, but from doing so...