LS-DYNA Technical Resources

Download and Installation:

Instructions for downloading and installing LS-DYNA can be found at www.lstc.com/download. Please contact MFAC for obtaining the username and password required for downloading the software.

Tutorials:

• LS-DYNA training tutorials are available in Dyna support website. For additional LS-DYNA examples, please go to Dyna Examples website
• LS-PREPOST tutorials can be found at LSTC website using the link HERE
• LS-OPT Tutorials Can be found at LSTC website using the link LS-OPT support HERE

FEA Information Journal:

FEA Information Engineering Journal (FEAIEJ™) is a monthly online publication focusing on specific disciplines within Finite Element Analysis with an emphasis on the use of LS-DYNA. Website: www.feaiej.com

Previous LS-DYNA Conference publications:

The following website provides information on papers published in previous year's European and International LS-DYNA conferences provided by the users: http://www.dynalook.com/

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ's):

LSTC has huge number of FAQ's available on there ftp site. Some of them are listed below, please click on the topic below on which you are interested to learn more about:

• Consistent units 
• An overview of Contact 
• Soft Contact 
• General guidelines for Crash Analysis 
• Hourglass Control 
• Dealing with Instabilities 
• Dealing with long run times 
• Mass Scaling 
• Negative Volume in Brick Elements 
• Quasi-static simulations 
• Restarting Analyses 
• Modeling spinning bodies
  Spring Back 
• Stress vs Strain for plasticity models 
• User-defined materials 

If you have more questions, please do not hesitate to contact us. We will get back to you as soon as possible.