Automotive Crashworthiness & Occupant Safety
LS-DYNA 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 collision 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.
Specialized automotive features include:
- Seatbelts
- Slip rings
- Pretensioners
- Retractors
- Sensors
- Accelerometers
- Airbags
- Hybrid III dummy models
- Inflator models
Metal Forming
One of LS-DYNA's most widely used applications is sheetmetal forming. LS-DYNA accurately predicts the stresses and deformations experienced by the metal, and determines 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 include:
- Metal stamping
- Hydroforming
- Forging
- Deep drawing
- Multi-stage processes
Aerospace
LS-DYNA is widely used by the aerospace industry to simulate bird strike, jet engine blade containment, and structural failure.
Aerospace applications include:
- Blade containment
- Bird strike (windshield, and engine blade)
- Failure analysis
Other
Other applications include:
- Drop testing
- Can and shipping container design
- Electronic component design
- Glass forming
- Plastics, mold, and blow forming
- Biomechanics (heart valves)
- Metal cutting
- Earthquake engineering
- Failure analysis
- Sports equipment (golf clubs, golf balls, baseball bats, helmets)
- Civil engineering (offshore platforms, pavement design)