SMILE – Alternative Input Language for LS-DYNA (and Other Solvers)

To ensure today’s development cycles for products and components, the main part of the development process has to be supported by numerical simulations. For complex parts, many simulation disciplines have to be considered to meet all the requirements. This results in a usage of different simulation tools with different input file languages. Moreover, a typical simulation engineer has to be an expert for numerical simulation (in most cases for a specific solver), and also an experienced engineer (for a specific development discipline).