LS-DYNA Documentation


The manuals listed below form the LS-DYNA product documentation set. They include descriptions of the procedures, commands, elements, and theoretical details needed to perform explicit dynamics analyses with LS-DYNA. A brief description of each manual follows.

LS-DYNA User's Guide explains the process of setting up an explicit dynamics analysis using the LS-DYNA system in Mechanical. Information is provided for the specific LS-DYNA keywords used by the LS-DYNA system.
LS-DYNA Keyword and Theory Manuals provides access to the LS-DYNA Keyword and Theory manuals.
LS-DYNA LS-PrePost Tutorials provides tutorials that will teach you how to use LS-PrePost, a Pre- and Post-Processor that works with LS-DYNA solver input and output files.
LS-Run User's Guide teaches you how to use the LS-Run application to set up one or more commands line jobs to start the LS-DYNA solver.