Software Products Distribution : LS-DYNA
LS-DYNA - Finite Element Analysis
LS-DYNA software is a general purpose transient dynamic finite element program capable of simulating complex real world problems. It is optimized for shared and distributed memory Unix, Linux, and Windows based, platforms.
Applications:
Automotive Crashworthiness & Occupant Safety
LS-DYNA software is widely used by the automotive industry to analyze vehicle designs. LS-DYNA accurately predicts a car's behavior in a collision and the effects of the crash upon the car's occupants. With LS-DYNA, automotive companies and their suppliers can test car designs without having to tool or experimentally test a prototype, thus saving time and expense.
Sheet Metal Forming With LS-DYNA Software
One of LS-DYNA's most widely used applications is sheet metal forming. LS-DYNA accurately predicts the stresses and deformations experienced by the metal, and determine if the metal will fail. LS-DYNA supports adaptive remeshing and will refine the mesh during the analysis, as necessary, to increase accuracy and save time.
Metal forming applications for LS-DYNA include:
Metal stamping
Hydroforming
Forging
Deep drawing
Multi-stage processes
Aerospace Industry Applications
LS-DYNA is widely used by the aerospace industry to simulate bird strike, jet engine blade containment, and structural failure.
Aerospace applications for LS-DYNA include:
- Blade containment
- Bird strike (windshield, and engine blade)
- Failure analysis
Other LS-DYNA software applications include:
- Drop testing
- Can and shipping container design
- Electronic component design
- Glass forming
- Plastics, mold, and blow forming
- Biomedical
- Metal cutting
- Earthquake engineering
- Failure analysis
- Sports equipment (golf clubs, golf balls, baseball bats, helmets)
- Civil engineering (offshore platforms, pavement design)
Capabilities:
LS-DYNA's potential applications are numerous and can be tailored to many fields. LS-DYNA is a general-purpose multi-physics simulation software package and is not limited to a particular type of simulation. LS-DYNA provides the flexibility to combine many of its features to model a wide range of physical events. Key capabilities include:
- Nonlinear analysis
- Rigid body dynamics
- Quasi-static simulations
- Normal modes
- Linear statics
- Thermal analysis
- Fluid analysis
- FEM-rigid multi-body dynamics coupling (MADYMO, CAL3D)
- Failure analysis
- Real-time acoustics
- Design optimization
- Multi-physics coupling
- Structural-thermal coupling
- Adaptive remeshing
EASi has partnered with Livermore Software Technology Corp. for sales and distribution of LS-Dyna.