Introduction to Using LS-DYNA

Overview

Instructor: Akram Abu-Odeh

Time: Tuesday, March 20, 9:00am - 4:30pm

Location: Henderson Hall, Room 103

This course covers an introduction to using LS-DYNA, a general-purpose finite element program, and LS-PREPOST, a pre and post-processor for LS-DYNA, on the HPRC clusters.

Course Materials

The training presentatiion slides will be available soon.

Workshop Examples

References

Agenda

Morning session (9:00 - 11:30 am with 15 minute break at ~10:00 am)

Introduction
Scope of today’s workshop
Help Resources
Applications, features
Execution on TAMU HPRC
LS-PREPOST – Short Introduction
Dissection of LS-DYNA Input file

Lunch Break (11:30 am - 1:00 pm)
Afternoon session (1:00 - 4:30pm with 15 minute break at ~2:30 pm)

Dissection of LS-DYNA Input file (continued)
Output files
Running live examples covering different applications of interests
Quality control/Best practices
IF time permits, glancing over the following topics:
- Verification and Validation
- Flavor of advanced topics

Note: During the class sessions many aspects of the material will be illustrated live via a login to Ada. Attendees are welcome to follow these parts with their own laptops. They will need to configure their laptops to use the TAMULink wireless network. Relevant details on this can be found at: http://tamulink.tamu.edu/

You are encouraged to contact the HPRC helpdesk with any questions regarding Ada.