The ‘industry standard’ for simulation of short-duration transient events

Many engineers see LS-DYNA as the ‘industry standard’ for automotive & crash applications, including vehicle crash safety assessment, impacts with roadside furniture, roll-over protection, car seat design and also for general drop tests (particularly for consumer electronics).

But did you also know that the solver within LS-DYNA is incredibly capable and can also be used in many other areas, including blasts relevant to defence, aerospace impacts such as bird strikes on jet engines, crash safety for robotics & unmanned vehicles, drilling/cutting operations, metal forming, sports & safety equipment, as well as civil engineering applications including demolition or complex structure-soil interaction (such as those involving foundations and dams).

So when does it make sense for engineers to use an explicit dynamics approach?  An explicit dynamics solver is the best approach for simulating short duration transient events, often characterised by one or more of these features:

After a long-standing decades-long partnership, more recently Ansys acquired Livermore Software Technologies Corp (LSTC) to bring together the powerful combination of Ansys Workbench and LS-DYNA. If you have a challenging engineering simulation problem on the horizon, then LEAP has the team and the tools to help you solve it.

Examples of applications where LS-DYNA excels can be seen in many industries including Civil, Automotive & Defence:

Civil

Applications include Dams/soil interaction & earthquake structural response: