The manuals listed below form the Ansys LS-DYNA® product documentation set. They include descriptions of the procedures, commands, elements, and theoretical details needed to perform explicit dynamics analyses with the LS-DYNA® software. A brief description of each manual follows.
| LS-DYNA Release Notes - Provides access to the release notes. |
| LS-DYNA User's Guide - Explains the process of setting up an explicit dynamics analysis using the LS-DYNA® system in Mechanical. Additional material describes the specific LS-DYNA keywords used by the LS-DYNA® system in Mechanical. |
| LS-DYNA Implicit Analysis Guide - Provides a starting point for setting up implicit analyses in the LS-DYNA® software. The guide describes control card settings, element formulations, material models, and other aspects of implicit analyses. It also includes a variety of downloadable examples. |
| LS-DYNA Keyword and Theory Manuals - Provides Access to the LS-DYNA Keyword and Theory manuals. The LS-DYNA® Keyword and Theory Manuals can also be accessed from the Ansys Help site, LS-DYNA®Manuals site, or, if you are using the solver directly, by opening the PDF files downloaded with the unified installer package. |
| LS-Run User's Guide - Describes the use and features of LS-Run, a tool for starting LS-DYNA® jobs. |
| Envyo User's Guide - Describes the use and features of Envyo, an LS-DYNA® product tool, that transfers simulation data between different meshes. |