Skip to content. | Skip to navigation

Sections
Personal tools
You are here: Home Intro by J. Reid Sphere Plate
Valuable Sites

LSTC

Developer of LS-DYNA

LS-DYNA Support Site

Tutorials, HowTos, FAQs ...

 

DYNAlook

LS-DYNA specific conference papers

 

LS-OPT Support Site

Optimization examples, FAQs, HowTos ...

 

Dummy Models

Dummy models for LS-DYNA

LS-PrePost

Online documentation

Top Crunch

Benchmarks in high performance computing

DYNAmore

LS-DYNA distributor, tools, docs

 

 

 

Sphere Plate

Sphere impacting a plate. Exercise to define initial conditions and failure. Download is available in the download section of this document.

Keywords

Keywords

This example has been taken from the introductory class of John D. Reid. Example name: sphere-plate.k

The used Keywords in alphabetical order.

*BOUNDARY_SPC_NODE
*CONSTRAINED_TIED_NODES_FAILURE
*CONTROL_ENERGY
*CONTROL_OUTPUT
*CONTROL_TERMINATION
*DATABASE_BINARY_D3PLOT
*DATABASE_BINARY_D3THDT
*DATABASE_EXTENT_BINARY
*DATABASE_GLSTAT
*DATABASE_HISTORY_NODE
*DATABASE_MATSUM
*DATABASE_NODOUT
*DATABASE_RBDOUT
*DATABASE_RCFORC
*DATABASE_SLEOUT
*ELEMENT_SHELL
*ELEMENT_SOLID
*END
*KEYWORD
*MAT_PIECEWISE_LINEAR_PLASTICITY
*MAT_RIGID
*NODE
*PART
*SECTION_SHELL
*SECTION_SOLID
*SET_NODE_LIST
*TITLE

Reduced Input

Reduced Input

This example has been taken from the introductory class of John D. Reid. Example name: sphere-plate.k

*Node and *Element Cards are removed.

  *KEYWORD
  *TITLE
  Rigid sphere on top of a plate
  $
  $
  $  * Part 2 - plate
  $      Shells (2.5 mm thick)
  $      Mild steel (with strain rate effect)
  $      Constrained on all four edges
  $ 
  $  * Part 3 - sphere
  $      Solids
  $      Rigid
  $
  $
  $  John D. Reid  2/2/95, 9/9/96, 2/17/98
  $
  $  Units: mm, kg, ms, kN, GPa, kN-mm
  $
  $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
  $
  $$$$  Control Ouput
  $
  $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
  $
  $...>....1....>....2....>....3....>....4....>....5....>....6....>....7....>....8
  $
  *CONTROL_TERMINATION 
  $   endtim    endcyc     dtmin    endeng    endmas
        0.80
  $
  *CONTROL_ENERGY
  $     hgen      rwen    slnten     rylen
           2         2         2
  $
  *CONTROL_OUTPUT
  $    npopt    neecho    nrefup    iaccop     opifs    ipnint    ikedit
           1         3
  $
  *DATABASE_BINARY_D3PLOT
  $       dt       lcdt
         0.1
  $
  *DATABASE_EXTENT_BINARY
  $    neiph     neips    maxint    strflg    sigflg    epsflg    rltflg    engflg
  
  $
  $   cmpflg    ieverp    beamip
                     1
  $
  *DATABASE_BINARY_D3THDT
  $       dt       lcdt
      999999
  $
  *DATABASE_HISTORY_NODE
  $      id1       id2       id3       id4       id5       id6       id7       id8
        2633       362       489
  $
  *DATABASE_NODOUT
  $       dt
       0.005
  $
  *DATABASE_GLSTAT
  $       dt
       0.005
  $
  *DATABASE_MATSUM
  $       dt
       0.005
  $
  *DATABASE_RBDOUT
  $       dt
       0.005
  $
  *DATABASE_RCFORC
  $       dt
       0.005
  $
  *DATABASE_SLEOUT
  $       dt
       0.005
  $
  $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
  $
  $$$$  Define Parts and Materials
  $
  $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
  $
  $...>....1....>....2....>....3....>....4....>....5....>....6....>....7....>....8
  $ 
  $$$ Part    2    shell: plate
  $
  $$$ Part    3    solid: sphere
  $ 
  $
  *PART
  $
  $      pid       sid       mid     eosid      hgid      grav    adpopt
  plate
           2         1         1
  $
  sphere
           3         2         2
  $ 
  $ 
  $$$$  Materials
  $
  *MAT_PIECEWISE_LINEAR_PLASTICITY
  $
  $      mid        ro         e        pr      sigy      etan      eppf      tdel
           1 0.783E-05     200.0       0.3     0.207               0.750
  $  Cowper/Symonds Strain Rate Parameters
  $        c         p      lcss      lcsr
          40         5
  $  Plastic stress/strain curves
       0.000     0.080     0.160     0.400     1.000
       0.207     0.250     0.275     0.290     0.300
  $
  $ 
  *MAT_RIGID
  $
  $      mid        ro         e        pr         n    couple         m     alias
           2 0.783E-05     200.0       0.3  
  $
  $      cmo      con1      con2
  
  $
  $   lco/a1        a2        a3        v1        v2        v3
  
  $
  $
  $$$$  Sections
  $
  *SECTION_SHELL
  $      sid    elform      shrf       nip     propt   qr/irid     icomp
           1         2                 3.0
  $       t1        t2        t3        t4      nloc
        2.50      2.50      2.50      2.50
  $
  *SECTION_SOLID
  $
  $      sid    elform
           2
  $
  $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
  $
  $$$$  Boundary and Initial Conditions
  $
  $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
  $
  $...>....1....>....2....>....3....>....4....>....5....>....6....>....7....>....8
  $
  $ Nodal single point constraints
  $
  *BOUNDARY_SPC_NODE
  $
  $      nid       cid      dofx      dofy      dofz     dofrx     dofry     dofrz
  $
  $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
  $
  $$$$  Define Nodes and Elements
  $
  $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
  $
  $...>....1....>....2....>....3....>....4....>....5....>....6....>....7....>....8
  $
  $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
  $
  $$$$  Define Tied Nodes with Failure Constraints
  $
  $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
  $
  $...>....1....>....2....>....3....>....4....>....5....>....6....>....7....>....8
  $
  *CONSTRAINED_TIED_NODES_FAILURE
  $     nsid      eppf
         101    0.0850
  *SET_NODE_LIST
  $      sid
         101
         775       778       896       897
  $
  *END

Figures

Figures

This example has been taken from the introductory class of John D. Reid. Example name: sphere-plate.k

image01.gif

image02.gif

Animated Result

Animated Result

This example has been taken from the introductory class of John D. Reid. Example name: sphere-plate.k

Result

Download

Download

This example has been taken from the introductory class of John D. Reid. Example name: sphere-plate.k