Discover the latest innovations around LS-DYNA at our largest North American LS-DYNA user forum in Detroit, Michigan. Join us for a packed 2-day event as we showcase exciting keynotes, dozens of user presentations across parallel tracks, networking opportunities with hundreds of expert users and a poster session for targeted discussions.
Suburban Collection Showplace
46100 Grand River Ave, Novi 48374
Date: November 15-16, 2023
The LS-DYNA user forum acts as a catalyst to accelerate cutting-edge innovation for LS-DYNA by bringing together hundreds of experts from all across the world.
We will discuss key topics like crash, A&D, NVH, composites and more - attendees can expect to stay up-to-date on the latest features and workflows, discover new and collaborative solutions, enhance product development efforts, and cultivate shared best practices with LS-DYNA users towards an industry-driven future.
The Suburban Collection Showplace is a 520,000 square foot facility – located on Grand River Avenue between Novi and Beck Roads. The Showplace is within an hour and a half drive for 70% of Michigan’s population, and 30 minutes from Downtown Detroit. The 2023 LS-DYNA user forum will feature a large ballroom, breakout rooms and reception space for all attendees.
| Keynotes & Introduction - Diamond Ballroom | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Time | EVENT | ||
| 7:15am - 8:45am | Registration - Foyer of Diamond Ballroom + Breakfast (Hall C) | ||
| 8:45am - 9:00am | Opening Remarks | ||
| 9:00am - 9:30am | Plenary 1 : Kevin Miller (Director Global Safety Performance) General Motors | ||
| 9:30am - 10:00am | Plenary 2 : K. Kawahara (Toyota) Evolution and Future of crash safety CAE in Toyota | ||
| 10:00am - 10:30am | Keynote 1: Alex Gromer (Ansys DYNAmore) This is Hans | ||
| 10:30am - 10:45am | Break / Snacks - Foyer of Diamond Ballroom | ||
| User Presentations | |||
| Time | TRACK 1 - Diamond Ballroom | TRACK 2 - Sapphire Breakout Room | TRACK 3 - Garnet Breakout Room |
| 10:45am - 11:15am | Springback simulation of plastic material -Application to low-speed impact - Kishore Pydimarry (Honda) | Ansys Forming – GUI for Sheet Metal Forming with LS-Dyna New developments, new features, new user experience - Volker Steininger (Ansys / TiwaQuest) | Fluid added mass modeling in LS-DYNA and its application in structural vibration - Yun Huang (Ansys) |
| 11:15am - 11:45am | Latest ANSA developments for the creation of IGA LS-DYNA models - Lambros Rorris (BETA CAE Systems) | Automation of the Modeling of Sheet metal panel handling - Steven Sheng (General Motors) | Thermal Runaway in Electric Vehicle Crash Simulation using LS-DYNA - Pierre L'Eplattenier (Ansys) |
| 11:45am - 12:15pm | Creation of Unstructured Splines for IGA-based linear and non-linear solutions in LS-DYNA - Mukul Kanitkar (Ansys) | LS-DYNA/LS-PrePost Application in Bulk Metal Forging - Li Zhang (Ansys) | Acoustic Boundary Element Method in Workbench - Laurent Sabatier (Ansys) |
| 12:15pm - 12:45pm | Validation and model development for a laminated safety glass - Hector Hernandez (Canoo) | Wire Forming for Electric Machine Stators - Andrew Dragon (Borgwarner) | Fatigue assessment of an adhesively bonded EV battery enclosure, using LS-DYNA implicit tools - Emily Owen (Arup) |
| 12:45pm - 1:45pm | Lunch - Hall C | ||
| TRACK 4 - Diamond Ballroom | TRACK 5 - Sapphire Breakout Room | TRACK 6 - Garnet Breakout Room | |
| 2:00pm - 2:30pm | Hybrid model approach using IGA and FEA for FMVSS 214 - Static Simulation - Prajwal Kumar Manohar (General Motors) | Monopile damage assessment from impact with a sub-sea boulder, using an efficient LS-DYNA methodology - Francois Lancelot (Arup) | Enhancing Public Safety: Finite Element Analysis in Transport Vehicle Designs - Perumal Balu (Detroit Engineered Products) |
| 2:30pm - 3:00pm | Material Damage Validation for High Strength Steel -A New Experimental Approach - Amir Oueslati (Honda) | Developments in *MAT_WINFRITH_CONCRETE and Application to Modelling of Segmented Concrete Tunnel Linings - Richard Sturt (Arup) | Advanced Modelling of Aluminum for Crash Simulation - Olaf Hartmann (ARRK Engineering GmbH) |
| 3:00pm - 3:30pm | Virtual Product Development with an SDM system demonstrated by playing with LEGO Car Models as Examples - Peter Friedrich (SCALEsdm U.S) | FMH, Methodology for Better Understanding of Kinematic-Stiffness Coupling Behavior - Hector Hernandez (Canoo) | Modern Crashworthiness Engineering with Zero-Code AI/ML for LS-DYNA- Suri Bala (d3View) |
| 3:30pm - 4:00pm | Multi-stage Analysis Approach to Low Speed Vehicle Impacts using the *SENSOR Keywords - Emily Owen (Arup) | Co-simulation in LS-DYNA: FMU and SYC - Isheng Yeh (Ansys) | Ductile Fracture of Aerospace Metals - Ethan White (University of Dayton) |
| 4:00pm - 4:30pm | Battery Cell Characterization Using PyDYNA - Srikanth Adya (Ansys) | Geometrically Watertight Unstructured Splines for LS-DYNA IGA, FEA, and Beyond - Ben Urick (nVariate, Inc.) | Addressing positioning challenges for ATDs and HBMs for LS-DYNA industrial safety simulations: Embracing ANSA approach - Dinesh Pandeti (BETA CAE Systems) |
| 4:45pm - 5:15pm | Closing Remarks / Closing Keynote | ||
| 5:15pm - 6:00pm | Cocktail Hour - Foyer of Diamond Ballroom | ||
| 6:00pm - 8:00pm | Buffet Dinner - Hall C | ||
| Keynotes & Introduction - Diamond Ballroom | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Time | EVENT | ||
| 7:45am - 8:45am | Breakfast - Hall C | ||
| 8:45am - 9:00am | Opening Remark + Summary | ||
| 9:00am - 9:30am | Plenary 3 : Aerospace structural impact dynamics applications, from conceptual design to certification by analysis - Gerardo Oliveres (National Institute of Aviation Research) | ||
| 9:30am - 10:00am | Keynote 2: Hui-Ping Wang (Tech Fellow) GM Manufacturing and Joining Analysis | ||
| 10:00am - 10:15am | Break / Snacks - Foyer of Diamond Ballroom | ||
| User Presentations | |||
| Time | TRACK 7 - Diamond Ballroom | TRACK 8 - Sapphire Breakout Room | TRACK 9 - Garnet Breakout Room |
| 10:15am - 10:45am | Innovate your engineering design processes with Ansys LS DYNA and Amazon EC2 - Aditya Jayanthi (AWS) | Managing and assembling full-vehicle digital crash models using ANSA techniques - Alexandros Kaloudis (BETA CAE Systems) | Recent enhancement for modelling adhesives in the closed manufacturing crashworthiness process chain - Thomas Kloppel (Ansys) |
| 10:45am - 11:15am | Exploring the Potential of ARM Processors: Evaluating LS-DYNA Performance for Cloud-Based High-Performance Computing - Amit Nair (Ansys) | Dummies for Future Testing Scenarios - Shiva Shetty (Humanetics) | JFNK - a new nonlinear implicit algorithm and some applications - Thomas Borrvall (Ansys) |
| 11:15am - 11:45am | Using High Fidelity Drop Simulations of an Augmented Reality (AR) Device to Inform Subassembly Shock Testing - Stephen Rugg (Magic Leap) | Full-field Dynamic ROM generation with LS-OPT, LS-DYNA and Twin Builder - Nielen Stander (Ansys) | Stress state dependent regularization - Filipe Andrade (Ansys) |
| 11:45am - 12:15pm | Time-Domain Explicit Dynamic CAE Simulation for Brake Squeal - Gavin Song (Ford) | Implementation of u-P elements for incompressible hyperelastic materials - Thomas Borrvall (Ansys) | Simulating the deployment of a sonobuoy dropped from air and landing in seawater using ICFD solver in LS-DYNA - Amit Nair (Ansys) |
| 12:15pm - 12:45pm | Current Strategies of Glass Modelling with MAT_280 - Andre Haufe (Ansys) | Efficient Structural Optimization Techniques using the Incremental Equivalent Static Load Method for ANSYS LS-DYNA - Juan Pablo Leiva (OmniQuest) | Exploring FSI Simulations with LS-DYNA ICFD: Applications, and Capabilities - Satish Kumar Meenakshisundaram (Ansys) |
| 12:45pm - 1:45pm | Lunch - Hall C | ||
| TRACK 10 - Diamond Ballroom | |||
| 2:00pm - 2:20pm | Accelerating LS-DYNA with TotalCAE HPC Managed Services for Clusters and Cloud - Mike Spray (TotalCAE) | ||
| 2:20pm - 2:40pm | New Features in the latest Version of LS-PrePost and the Post Explorer - Philip Ho (Ansys) | ||
| 2:40pm - 3:00pm | Recent Developments of LS-Dyna Multiscale Methods - CT Wu (Ansys) | ||
| 3:00pm - 3:20pm | Advances of LS-DYNA SPG and ISPG (Incompressible Smoothed Particle Galerkin) methods for solids and adhesive fluids modeling in material processing and manufacturing applications - CT Wu(Ansys) | ||
| 3.20pm - 3:40pm | Break - Foyer of Diamond Ballroom | ||
| 3:40pm - 4:00pm | Recent advancements in IGA - Dave Benson (Ansys) | ||
| 4:00pm - 4:20pm | Recent updates in LS-DYNA NVH solvers - Yun Huang (Ansys) | ||
| 4:20pm - 4:40pm | Latest features in LS-DYNA for Crash Safety - Julien Santini (Ansys) | ||
| 4:40pm - 5:00pm | A pragmatic approach to modeling of nonlinear rheological networks for polymers - Thomas Borrvall (Ansys) | ||
| 5:00pm - 5:30pm | LS-DYNA R15 updates - Roger Grimes/Thomas Borrvall (Ansys) | ||
| 5:30pm - 5:45pm | Closing Reception | ||
| 5:45pm - 7:00pm | Closing Reception - Foyer of Diamond Ballroom | ||
