10th European LS-DYNA Conference, Wurzburg, Germany

This biennial LS-DYNA conference was held in Würzburg, Germany and was hosted by DYNAmore of Germany. Predictive Engineering was represented by Adrian Jensen and George Laird where we presented our new LS-DYNA MPP Program Manager interface. Key topics of interest were the new CFD capabilities within LS-DYNA, extensive code improvements toward increased scalablity (MPP and hybrid SMP/MPP) and advanced composites modeling. Besides over 170 papers (see DYNALook for a digital archive of the papers) concurrent workshops were given on implicit, CFD, composites, dummy positioning, etc.

As with all LS-DYNA conferences, the social activities were outstanding with beer gardens, gala dinners and lots of time to discuss engineering simulation with the over 450 attendees. If you are using LS-DYNA or interested in nonlinear, transient analysis, the LS-DYNA conferences are great venues to network, learn new skills or just expand your horizons.