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    Impact Analysis Using LS-Dyna: Tutorial

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    This document provides a tutorial on using LS-Dyna to simulate an impact analysis. It outlines the main steps in setting up an impact simulation, including importing geometry, defining materials, meshing, applying boundary conditions and initial velocities, running the simulation, and post-processing results. It then provides a detailed example of simulating the impact of one plate on another to demonstrate these steps.

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    This document provides a tutorial on using LS-Dyna to simulate an impact analysis. It outlines the main steps in setting up an impact simulation, including importing geometry, defining materials, meshing, applying boundary conditions and initial velocities, running the simulation, and post-processing results. It then provides a detailed example of simulating the impact of one plate on another to demonstrate these steps.

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    This document provides a tutorial on using LS-Dyna to simulate an impact analysis. It outlines the main steps in setting up an impact simulation, including importing geometry, defining materials, meshing, applying boundary conditions and initial velocities, running the simulation, and post-processing results. It then provides a detailed example of simulating the impact of one plate on another to demonstrate these steps.

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    Impact Analysis Using LS-Dyna: Tutorial

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    This document provides a tutorial on using LS-Dyna to simulate an impact analysis. It outlines the main steps in setting up an impact simulation, including importing geometry, defining materials, meshing, applying boundary conditions and initial velocities, running the simulation, and post-processing results. It then provides a detailed example of simulating the impact of one plate on another to demonstrate these steps.

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    The document provides an overview of how to set up and run an impact simulation using LS-Dyna. It discusses important steps like importing geometry, defining materials, meshing, applying boundary conditions, defining contacts and running the simulation.

    The main steps involved in setting up an impact simulation in LS-Dyna are: importing geometry, defining element type/material/properties, meshing, applying boundary conditions, defining initial conditions, setting the solution, defining output controls and post-processing.

    The element types available in LS-Dyna discussed in the document are: LINK160, BEAM161, PLANE162, SHELL163, SOLID164, COMBI165, MASS166, LINK167.

    Impact Analysis Using LS-Dyna

    Tutorial

    1 Ravishankar Subbaramaiah
    Problem Definition
     Primary requirement for the impact / drop test are
     Boundary condition
     Initial Velocity
     Contact Definition based on element strategy.

     Main Steps involved in setting up a simulation


     Import Geometry
     Define Element Type, Material, Section Properties (Real Constants)
     Meshing
     Boundary Condition and Initial Condition
     Solution Setting
     Output Controls.
     Post Processing

     I have given a brief introduction to various option in the interface followed


    by a step by step procedure for an example from page 14

    2
    Starting LS-Dyna using Ansys
     Using Ansys Product Launcher.
     Set License to Ansys Academic Research LS-Dyna

    3
    Geometry
     Import geometry through various cad translators using menu
    shown below.
     Catia, Pro-e or Parasolid

    4
    Material Models in LS-Dyna
     Material input GUI consistent and similar to implicit interface.

    I
    II

    III

    IV

    5
    Mesh and Element Type
     LS-Dyna Element type in Ansys pre-post are 16x series element.
     LINK160: 3-D explicit pin-jointed truss (similar to LINK8)
     BEAM161: 3-D explicit beam (similar to BEAM4)
     PLANE162: 2-D explicit planar solid (similar to PLANE42)
     SHELL163: 3-D explicit thin shell (similar to SHELL181)
     SOLID164: 3-D explicit brick (similar to SOLID185)
     COMBI165: 3-D explicit spring or damper (similar to COMBIN14)
     MASS166: 3-D explicit structural mass (similar to MASS21)
     LINK167: 3-D explicit cable (similar to LINK10)
     Meshing is similar to Ansys Implicit, mesh tool is highlighted in the image
    3.0
     Volume mesh (Hex and Tet), Area mesh (mapped and free) and Line mesh (
    discrete and beam element)
     Mesh size has a high influence on the solution time, as ∆t=l/c
     Δt is the time needed for the wave to propagate through the rod of length l.

    6
    Defining Contact
     There are various contact families in LS-Dyna
     Single Surface Contact Algorithm
     Nodes-to-Surface Contact Algorithm
     Surface-to-Surface Contact Algorithm
     General (Basic) Contact Family
     Automatic Contact Family
     Rigid Contact Family
     Tied Contact Family
     Tiebreak Contact Family
     Eroding Contact
     Image 4.0 Shows contact
    setup module.

    7
    Boundary Condition
     Apply boundary condition in the Constraints module, it
    includes fixed condition for immovable parts like floor or
    wall.

    8
    Boundary Condition
     Initial velocity is most commonly used input for a
    impact/drop test.
     Initial Velocities are applied on node components.

    9
    Solution- Ls Dyna Solver
     The termination time is the actual time for which the
    simulation of physical process is run (often in ms).

    10
    Output request and frequency
     Specify how often results for the entire model are written.
     can output a series of LS-DYNA ASCII output files that
    contain specialized information

    GLSTAT - Global statistics data


    BNDOUT - Boundary condition forces and energy
    RWFORC - Rigid wall forces
    DEFORC - Discrete element forces
    MATSUM - Material energies summary
    NCFORC - Nodal interface forces
    RCFORC - Resultant interface forces
    DEFGEO - Deformed geometry data
    SPCFORC - Single point constraint reaction forces
    SWFORC - Nodal constraint reaction forces
    RBDOUT - Rigid body data
    GCEOUT - Geometry contact entities
    SLEOUT - Sliding interface energies data
    JNTFORC - Joint force data
    11 NODOUT - Node data
    ELOUT - Element data
    Post Processing
     POST1, the ANSYS General Postprocessor
     Animation
     Deformation, Stresses

    12
    Post Processing : Time History
     POST26 Time History Postprocessor
     Plot time-history curves, plot acceleration, velocity, displacement vs time .
     Access LS Dyna Ascii output files.

    13
    Example Plate impacting Plate

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    Definition
     A Shell Elements drop and rebounds from a elastic plate.
     Plate measure 40*40*1 mm3 (16 elements)
     Dropped shell has 10mm side length and 2 mm thickness.
     Drop height is 10mm
     Element formulation is Belutschko-Tsay
     Define a surface to surface contact with 2 way detection.
     Define the elastic plate as Master and impacting shell as slave.
     Initial Velocity is 100,000 mm/sec vertically
     End Time is 0.0002 sec.

    15
    Set-Up
     For model setup we use various option in the preprocessor tab.
     Create 2 areas with required dimension as shown below (Preprocessor-Modeling-create-).
     Transform drop shell to required drop height.

    16
    Meshing
     Define Element Type 163 (Preprocessor-Element type-add/edit/delete-)
     Part should be defined using right combination of material , real contact ,
    element type. Before meshing this has set and can be confirmed at status bar.

    Part Material Element Type Real constant


    1 1 1 1
    2 1 1 2

    Status Bar
    17
    Meshing cont…
     Define Real Constant to assign section properties or
    thicknesses. For each thickness there should be one real
    constant. (Preprocessor-Real Constants)

    18
    Meshing Cont…Material Properties
     Define material properties for various parts using option shown
    below. (Preprocessor-Material Props-Material Models)

    19
    Creating Parts
     Assign the correct material, section properties and element type to create
    parts.
     For LS-Dyna to recognize a part, its should be a group of elements that have the
    same combination of element type, real constant set, and material reference
    numbers
     Repeat this to all area/components (Preprocessor-Meshing – Mesh Attributes)

    20
    Revisiting Meshing
     Set line seeding or element size. (Preprocessor-Meshing-Mesh tool-Set)
     Mesh Volume ,Areas and lines to generate solid, shell or beam elements.
     Refer images below to access the meshing tool.

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    Creating Components
     We need to create node and elements components for
     Adding Constrains to a group of nodes
     Defining Velocity to a part (part nodes need to be grouped)
     Defining a master surface and node surface (associated nodes of surface need
    to be grouped)
     To request output for required parts/region of interest.
     In this model create node and element component for both the areas you
    could name them for example as plate_e and plate_n for element and node
    components. Refer images below to access the menu options.

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    Adding Constrains to Model
     The plate is fixed at its boundaries (Preprocessor-LS-DYNA-Constraints-On Nodes)
     Create a node component or select the desired nodes to apply the constrains.
     Refer images below to access the menu options to add constrain.

    23
    Defining contacts
     In this model we will create a Automatic Surface to Surface Contact.
    Choose the moving plate as contact surface and fixed plate as target
    surface. (Preprocessor-LS-DYNA-Contact-DefineContact)

    24
    Initial Velocity
     The moving plate has initial velocity of 100,000 mm/s in vertical direction.
     Initial velocity can be applied using option under LS-Dyna Option tab as show
    below. (Preprocessor-LS-DYNA-Initial Velocity-w/Nodal Rotate)

    25
    Solution Setting
     As per problem definition end time is 0.0002 sec, remember that most
    of impact problem occur over a time of ms.
     We now use option in the solution tab (Solution – Time Controls –
    Solution Time)

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    Output Controls
     In output controls we
     Request for both Ansys and LS-Dyna Result formats
     Set the frequency at which result files are written
     Request for Special Ascii files which has information on system energies, Nodal and Elemental results.
     Select the components for which Time-History results has to be written.

    You could request for 10 Ascii files at a


    time the most frequent used are
    Global statistics data
    Boundary condition forces and energy
    Material energies summary
    Geometry contact entities
    Node data

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    Solution and Results
     Click on the Solve option in run the simulation (Solution – Solve)

     As Discussed before this example Post processing option are


     General Post Proc
     Time History Post Pro
     Attached is the animation of the solved problem.
     Utility Menu > PlotCtrls > Animate > Over Results

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    Time- History Post Processing
     TimeHist Postpro > Variable Viewer > File > Open >
    Explicit Dynamics Results (*.his) > Jobname.his

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