
IGA in LS-DYNA: Studies and Applications
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Over the past few years, the IGA capabilities in LS-DYNA have been continuously extended and improved, also facilitated by a close collaboration with academia and industry. This culminated in full vehicle crash simulations of a body-in-white modeled with hundreds of trimmed NURBS shell components [1]. Motivated by the achievements with shells and the increasing usage of (large) casting components in the automotive industry, the concept of trimmed B-Spline solids was recently implemented in LS-DYNA [2,3]. These trimmed B-Spline solids enable a fast and simple model generation, a feasible explicit time step size, decoupling of geometry and mechanics and thus new attractive possibilities for crash analysis of casting components. In this contribution, we present practical studies of trimmed IGA shell and solid models with a focus on material calibration, damage and failure modeling, and the comparison with conventional FEA models in terms of accuracy and numerical efficiency. We furthermore demonstrate the wide range of IGA capabilities in LS-DYNA through a variety of industrial application examples. REFERENCES [1] F. Bauer, T. Yugeng, L. Leidinger, S. Hartmann, Experience with Crash Simulations using an IGA Body in White. 14th European LS-DYNA Conference 2023, Baden-Baden, Germany. [2] S. Hartmann, L. Leidinger, F. Bauer, D. Benson, L. Li, A. Nagy, L. Nguyen, M. Pigazzini, Updates on trimmed IGA B-Spline Solids. 17th International LS-DYNA Conference 2024, Detroit, Michigan, USA. [3] M. Meßmer, T. Teschemacher, L.F. Leidinger, R. Wüchner, K.-U. Bletzinger, Efficient CAD-integrated isogeometric analysis of trimmed solids. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, Vol. 400 (2022) 115584.