Hi @fabian First off, pretty cool simulation setup! Were you not expecting this higher shear stress in the Sapphire region? Can you elaborate more on ...

@matrix89 It’s commonly used for conventional metals, along with *Mat_Plastic_Kinematic. It’s an elasto-plastic material with an optional plastic stra...

@chrisj97 So you do not get any errors when you open it?

@shrikant_panchal Well if they are two nodes at the same coordinate location but are referenced by two different parts, then yes, you can have differe...

@chrisj97 Are you getting any errors or warnings when you open the model in LS-PrePost? This sounds like something that would show up there. It seems ...

Hi @jhaley, When dealing with impactors like rigid walls, you need to think about what you are trying to model. It's easy to model something hitting a...

@pranav I'm not familiar with doing pushover analysis in LS-Dyna, but I did find these two papers/guides that should be helpful: I'd be happy to hel...

@nitin_kumar So fabric within LS-Dyna means that there is not bending stiffness of the elements. So think of a blanket on a bed how it forms to the sh...

@saberman12 I'm not familiar with spall but am familiar with strain-based fracture/element deletion. Generally, you find a strain value where a certai...

@sainikmohan I'm sorry but I cannot help you with this. Perhaps somebody else has experience with the C language? What is the goal that you are tryin...

@pjay Yeah so using the section plane function in Prepost to cut a number of sections and identify where the peak wave is and find what the height is....

@pjay Did you ever find a solution to this? The only thing that I could think of would be going to Model -> Section and then creating a vertical se...

@nitin_kumar I just watched back through the video. Since they are using *Mat_Plastic_Kinematic for the fabric, you will need to use ELFORM 5 Belytsch...

I will also mention that you can use the fully integrated versions of the element formations that I mentioned previously which would be elform 9 or 16...

@nitin_kumar So to answer your first questions: 1.) When you say "fabric" do you mean that you are using *Mat_Fabric? Because if so then you can use B...