Adaptive Sampling using LS-OPT

LS-OPT is a design optimization and probabilistic analysis package with an interface to LS-DYNA® that provides a flexible framework to solve several types of design problems. In order to solve the problem, it runs simulations at multiple samples that are selected all at once (single iteration) or iteratively [1]. The iterative approach has two main advantages: require prior knowledge about the sufficient number of samples and instead provides a convergence history it can use updated information from the previous runs to select the samples smartly and thus typically reduces the number of required simulations