To follow up for anyone else who might stumble upon this: Main areas of problems seems to be: Contact issue Material issue Occurs more ofte...

Also, make sure your version of LS-PrePost supports the version of LS-Dyna that you are running. The can be tricky when running newer revisions, espec...

Can you provide an image example of this? And an application? Is it corrugated?

When a surface appears grey like that when trying to volume mesh, it's because it's not enclosed. You've got quite a lot of fixed points showing which...

Hi @leibhussar let me try to help answer your questions: The immediate failure at low strains typically occurs because: The high value of C (...

Your current model has motion defined as velocity in the *boundary_prescribed_motion (vad=0). You need to change vad=2 if you want to use that curve a...

Are you using dynamic relaxation? This thread from a few years ago mentions it could be causing the simulation to run beyond 100%, causing your proble...

You would need to write some kind of script to take the data from your text files and convert them into an input for *Load_node_point. However, load i...

If you are using a preprocessor like PrePost or Primer, you can load in your XY data from .txt or .csv file format.

Honestly, I’m not sure a resource like that for best practices is available. There could be a Dyna PowerPoint highlights potential use cases for the d...

This should answer most questions. If you have anything specific you are curious about let me know

The manual outlines how to do this:

CNRB between those nodes can couple them but create a rigid constraint. You can also use a variety of tied contacts if you want those nodes to stay de...

Could you try adjusting the Ignore parameter in *Control_contact to 1,2, or 3? I'm not sure how bad your initial penetrations are so I'm unable to rec...

Hi @javat33489, I believe your implementation is fine as long as your units are correct. But I'd like to question whether removing elements is the ...