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Welcome to the LS-DYNA support site

At this site you will find answers to basic and advanced questions that might occur while using LS-DYNA. Furthermore it will provide information about new releases and ongoing developments. The content will be regularly updated with answers to frequent questions related to LS-DYNA. LS-DYNAsupport will not provide information on activities of your local LS-DYNA distributor as seminars, promotions, etc. We may ask to check the local sites for any kind of non-technical information.

Tutorials / HowTos

How-to Viscoelastic materials
How-to Joint stiffness
How-to SMOOTH option
How-to Coordinate system for stress
How-to Contact stiffness influenced by time step size
How-to Contact between Beam and Shell Elements
How-to Force Analysis
How-to Shooting node
How-to Cross section
How-to Contact timestep
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FAQs

Page What is the difference between a discrete beam and a spring ?
 
Page What is mass scaling?
 
Page I have very long run times. What can I do?
 
Page Do you have tips how to to combat instabilities?
 
Article Will the mesh coarsening affect the accuracy of springback prediction?
 
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Release Notes

News Item LS-DYNA V971 R4.2 (R4.50638) released
New version of LS-DYNA is released for all common platforms.
News Item LS-DYNA V971 R3.2.1 (R3.47756) released
New version of LS-DYNA is released for all common platforms.
News Item LS-DYNA V971 R3.2 (R3.46862) released
New version of LS-DYNA is released for all common platforms.
News Item LS-DYNA V971 R3.1 (R3.43919) released
New version of LS-DYNA is released for all common platforms.
News Item LS-DYNA 971-7600.129 released
New version of LS-DYNA is released for all common platforms.
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