process2product simulation: Closing Incompatibilities in Constitutive Modeling and Spatial Discretization with envyo®

Within the automotive sector but also other industries, closing the simulation process chain from manufacturing towards the final crushing analysis becomes more and more important since it is well understood that the manufacturing process influences material properties such as initial damage, pre-stresses, induced plastic strains, differing thicknesses, or locally varying engineering constants. In LS-DYNA®, it is possible to consider such discontinuities using respective THICKNESS, BETA or ORTHO – options on element level, and *INITIAL_STRESS_SHELL/SOLID cards to introduce locally varying properties on an integration point level.