With the recent growth of multi-core chips, scalibility of pure MPP LS-DYNA beyond 128 cores has shown degration due to several factors including latency and network communications. LSTC has recently developed a new code named “Hybrid LS-DYNA” that provides sustained scalibility for large number of cores and also yields digit-2-digit repeatibility when changing the number…
Several of you requested the manual pages for the newly developed tabulated Johnson-Cook constitutive law now labeled as MAT_224. Here are the three pages of the keyword manual. MAT224 All Pages [ Click the image to enlarge] MAT224 Page 1 [ Click the image to enlarge] MAT224 Page 2 [ Click the image to enlarge]…
Most orthotropic material rely on the parameter AOPT to define the change/update the default material axes defined by LS-DYNA. The default axis for every shell element is based on the order of the node numbers if INN=0 which is then based on N1-N2 and the cross-product of N1-N2 and N1-N4. The default material axes may…
Finding a good material law can sometimes be a daunting task even for experienced users. To facilitate a quick review of possible material laws for a given material criteria, a LS-DYNA Material Law Browser was created for personal use and I hope its useful for others. Please send any feedback you may have at info@d3view.com
