LS-DYNA Applications
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 having to tool or experimentally test a prototype, thus saving time and expense.
Sheet Metal Forming With LS-DYNA
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 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 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
LS-DYNA's potential applications are numerous and can be tailored to many fields. LS-DYNA is a general-purpose multiphysics simulation software package and is not limited to any particular type of simulation. In a given simulation any of LS-DYNA's many features can be combined to model a wide range of physical events. An example of a simulation, which involves a unique combination of features, is the NASA JPL Mars Pathfinder landing simulation which simulated the space probe's use of airbags to aid in its landing. LS-DYNA is one of the most flexible finite element analysis software packages available.
Other LS-DYNA 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)