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Crushing of a beer can done using implicit analysis. Nonlinear Example 2 from A Roadmap to Linear an Nonlinear Implicit Analysis in LS-DYNA by George Laird and Satish Pathy.

Keywords

*BOUNDARY_SPC_NODE
*CONTACT_AUTOMATIC_SINGLE_SURFACE_MORTAR_ID
*CONTROL_ACCURACY
*CONTROL_IMPLICIT_AUTO
*CONTROL_IMPLICIT_DYNAMICS
*CONTROL_IMPLICIT_GENERAL
*CONTROL_IMPLICIT_SOLUTION
*CONTROL_SHELL
*CONTROL_TERMINATION
*DATABASE_BINARY_D3PLOT
*DATABASE_EXTENT_BINARY
*DATABASE_GLSTAT
*DATABASE_SPCFORC
*DEFINE_CURVE_TITLE
*ELEMENT_SHELL
*END
*KEYWORD
*LOAD_NODE_POINT
*MAT_ELASTIC_TITLE
*NODE
*PART
*SECTION_SHELL_TITLE
*TITLE

Reduced Input

*KEYWORD
*TITLE
Roadmap Linear and Nonlinear Analyses - Buckling of Beer Can
*CONTACT_AUTOMATIC_SINGLE_SURFACE_MORTAR_ID
         1Single-Surface Mortar Contact (The New Explicit/Implicit Standard)
        
       
      
*CONTROL_ACCURACY
                                       1
*CONTROL_IMPLICIT_AUTO
         1                                    0.01 
*CONTROL_IMPLICIT_DYNAMICS
         1       0.6      0.38     
*CONTROL_IMPLICIT_GENERAL
         1      0.01        
*CONTROL_IMPLICIT_SOLUTION
       
                                       2 
        
        
*CONTROL_SHELL
                   2                           -16     
                   1
         
                   1 
*CONTROL_TERMINATION
       1.0        
*DATABASE_GLSTAT
    1.0E-4         3
*DATABASE_SPCFORC
    1.0E-4         3
*DATABASE_BINARY_D3PLOT
    1.0E-4       
         
*DATABASE_EXTENT_BINARY
                            -3  
        
                             
       
*PART
         1         1         1         0         0         0         0         0
*SECTION_SHELL_TITLE
Beer Can
         1       -16    0.8333         3       
     0.002    
*PART
         2         2         1         
*SECTION_SHELL_TITLE
Floor - Just for Contact (Rigid Wall Would Have Worked Also)
         2       -16     0.833         
      0.01      
*MAT_ELASTIC_TITLE
Aluminum
         1   2.59E-4     1.0E7      0.33
*DEFINE_CURVE_TITLE
Load vs. Time
         1               
                 0.0                 0.0
                 1.0                 1.0
*LOAD_NODE_POINT
*ELEMENT_SHELL
*NODE
*BOUNDARY_SPC_NODE
*END

Figures

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Animated Result

berr_can3

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