HowTos

•  Accuracy
•  Consistent units
•  Contact Energy
•  Cross section
•  Damping
•  Double precision
•  Effective plastic strain
•  Environment variables
•  Equation of state
•  Extra history variables

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•  ALE history variables
•  Anisotropic plasticity models
•  Cohesive material models
•  Composite models
•  Concrete models
•  Define composites
•  Eulerian method; basics
•  From engineering to true strain, true stress
•  History Variables for Certain Material Models
•  Material model for TRIP-steels

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•  Beam
•  Cohesive element formulation
•  Coordinate system for stress
•  Discrete Beam
•  Hourglass
•  Negative volumes in brick elements
•  Shell Formulations
•  Shell offset
•  Shell output
•  Shell Strain

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•  Contact between Beam and Shell Elements
•  Contact overview
•  Contact stiffness influenced by time step size
•  Contact thickness
•  Contact timestep
•  EDGE-to-EDGE Contact
•  Force transducer
•  Initial Penetrations
•  Shooting node
•  SMOOTH option

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•  Elements and material models available for implicit
•  General remarks on implicit time integration
•  Implicit: Contact treatment
•  Implicit: Convergence
•  Implicit: Dynamic relaxation
•  Implicit: Loads on rigidbodies
•  Implicit: Memory notes
•  Implicit: Recommendation on solid element formulation
•  Some guidelines for implicit analyses using LS-DYNA
•  Switching from implicit to explicit

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•  Find and remove initial penetrations