Example Impact

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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.

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 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.

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

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

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 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)

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 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.

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 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)

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 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)

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 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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