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Front Matter

  • Abstract
  • Acknowledgements
  • Release Notes

Main Contents

  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. General Commands
  • 3. Explicit Dynamic Time Step Control
  • 4. Implicit Solver and Time Step Control
  • 5. Material Models
  • 6. Elements
  • 7. Boundary Conditions and Initial Conditions
  • 8. Contact
  • 9. Output
  • 10. User Subroutines
  • 11. Transfers

Appendices

  • A. Explicit Dynamics Example Problem
  • B. Implicit Quasistatic Example Problem
  • C. Consistent Units
  • D. Constraint Enforcement Hierarchy
  • E. Improving Explicit Dynamics Performance
  • F. Troubleshooting Guide for Implicit Convergence
  • G. User-Defined Model Initialization
  • H. Other Scripts Maintained by Development Team
  • I. Pre-defined User Options
  • J. Known Issues
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