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LS Dyna Tutorial

This document describes a simulation of an impact problem where a shell element drops and rebounds from an elastic plate. Key details include: - The shell has dimensions of 10x10x2 mm and drops from a height of 10mm onto a 40x40x1 mm plate. - The simulation is run with an end time of 0.0002 seconds using Belutschko-Tsay shell elements and a surface-to-surface contact definition. - Materials, elements, and constraints are defined and the model is meshed before an initial velocity of 100,000 mm/s is applied to the shell. - Output controls are used to request results files and special ASCII files with energy and force data to analyze

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LS Dyna Tutorial

This document describes a simulation of an impact problem where a shell element drops and rebounds from an elastic plate. Key details include: - The shell has dimensions of 10x10x2 mm and drops from a height of 10mm onto a 40x40x1 mm plate. - The simulation is run with an end time of 0.0002 seconds using Belutschko-Tsay shell elements and a surface-to-surface contact definition. - Materials, elements, and constraints are defined and the model is meshed before an initial velocity of 100,000 mm/s is applied to the shell. - Output controls are used to request results files and special ASCII files with energy and force data to analyze

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Example Impact

Definition
A Shell Elements drop and rebounds from a elastic plate.
Plate measure 40*40*1 mm3 (16 elements)
Dropped shell has 10mm side length and 2 mm thickness.
Drop height is 10mm
Element formulation is Belutschko-Tsay
Define a surface to surface contact with 2 way detection.
Define the elastic plate as Master and impacting shell as slave.
Initial Velocity is 100,000 mm/sec vertically
End Time is 0.0002 sec.

Set-Up
For model setup we use various option in the preprocessor tab.
Create 2 areas with required dimension as shown below (Preprocessor-Modeling-create-).
Transform drop shell to required drop height.

Meshing
Define Element Type 163 (Preprocessor-Element type-add/edit/delete-)
Part should be defined using right combination of material , real contact , element

type. Before meshing this has set and can be confirmed at status bar.

Part

Status
Bar

Material

Element Type Real


constant

Meshing cont
Define Real Constant to assign section properties

or thicknesses. For each thickness there should be


one real constant. (Preprocessor-Real Constants)

Meshing ContMaterial Properties


Define material properties for various parts using option

shown below. (Preprocessor-Material Props-Material


Models)

Creating Parts
Assign the correct material, section properties and element type to

create parts.
For LS-Dyna to recognize a part, its should be a group of elements
that have the same combination of element type, real constant set,
and material reference numbers
Repeat this to all area/components (Preprocessor-Meshing Mesh
Attributes)

Revisiting Meshing
Set line seeding or element size. (Preprocessor-Meshing-Mesh tool-Set)
Mesh Volume ,Areas and lines to generate solid, shell or beam

elements.
Refer images below to access the meshing tool.

Creating Components
We need to create node and elements components for
Adding

Constrains to a group of nodes


Defining Velocity to a part (part nodes need to be grouped)
Defining a master surface and node surface (associated nodes of
surface need to be grouped)
To request output for required parts/region of interest.
In this model create node and element component for both the areas
you could name them for example as plate_e and plate_n for element
and node components. Refer images below to access the menu
options.

Adding Constrains to Model


The plate is fixed at its boundaries (Preprocessor-LS-DYNA-Constraints-On Nodes)
Create a node component or select the desired nodes to apply the constrains.
Refer images below to access the menu options to add constrain.

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Defining contacts
In this model we will create a Automatic Surface to Surface Contact.

Choose the moving plate as contact surface and fixed plate as


target surface. (Preprocessor-LS-DYNA-Contact-DefineContact)

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Initial Velocity
The moving plate has initial velocity of 100,000 mm/s in vertical direction.
Initial velocity can be applied using option under LS-Dyna Option tab as

show below. (Preprocessor-LS-DYNA-Initial Velocity-w/Nodal Rotate)

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Solution Setting
As per problem definition end time is 0.0002 sec, remember

that most of impact problem occur over a time of ms.


We now use option in the solution tab (Solution Time
Controls Solution Time)

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Output Controls
In output controls we
Request for both Ansys and LS-Dyna Result formats
Set the frequency at which result files are written
Request for Special Ascii files which has information on system energies, Nodal and Elemental results.
Select the components for which Time-History results has to be written.

You could request for 10


Ascii files at a time the most
frequent used are
Global statistics data
Boundary condition forces
and energy
Material energies summary
Geometry contact entities
Node data

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Solution and Results


Click on the Solve option in run the simulation (Solution Solve)

As Discussed before this example Post processing option are


General Post Proc
Time History Post Pro
Attached is the animation of the solved problem.
Utility Menu > PlotCtrls > Animate > Over Results

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test.avi

Time- History Post Processing


TimeHist Postpro > Variable Viewer > File

> Open > Explicit Dynamics Results


(*.his) > Jobname.his

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