which software for impact/destructive simulation?

Hi phsieh,

I can suggest you a software, recently used by a collegue who interests in crash testing study---> "Visual crasch studio"

n.b.: I think is only a graphic solver, but i will give you more and detailed informations about it, if you need..

Best

R.Carrieri

Dear phsieh,

I know that, probably, you have to deepen this argument with a focus on internet or blog, but I have some informations:

- Impact design, europe version 2003 - 2010   (probably, there is the company, you should investigate about it!)

- it's a software in collaboration with HONDA+  (...)

Also, I'll post you the contact of a polish professor, who interests about it, in his theorical studies; I give you his references:

Tomasz Wierzbicki

Professor of Applied
Mechanics

Director, Impact and Crashworthiness Laboratory



Room
5-218A

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

77 Massachusetts
Avenue

Cambridge MA 02139-4307

Phone: 617-253-2104  

Fax:
617-253-8125  

Email: wierz [at] mit.edu (wierz[at]mit[dot]edu)



Administrative
Contact:

Barbara Smith

Room 5-320

Phone: 617-253-0137  

Email:
bsmith [at] mit.edu (bsmith[at]mit[dot]edu)



Education:

Ph.D. in Applied Mechanics, 1965

Institute of Fundamental Technological
Research, Warsaw, Poland

S.M. in Engine Design, 1960

Warsaw Technical
University, Warsaw, Poland

B.S. I took a unified program that led directly to
the Master of Science.

MIT Service:

1983 to date: Professor of Applied Mechanics, Department of Ocean
Engineering, MIT; currently the Department of Mechanical Engineering

Principal Publications in last five years: (Selected from last
two years)

1. X. Teng and T. Wierzbicki (2006), "Evaluation of six fracture models in high
   velocity perforation", Engineering Fracture Mechanics, 73(12): 1653-1678.
2. Y. Bai, Y. Bao and T. Wierzbicki (2006), "Fracture of prismatic aluminum
   tubes under reverse straining", International Journal of Impact Engineering,
   32(5): 671-701.
3. Y-W. Lee and T. Wierzbicki (2005), "Fracture prediction of thin plates under
   localized impulsive loading. Part I: dishing", International Journal of Impact
   Engineering, 31(10): 1253-1276.
4. L. Zheng, D. Petry, T. Wierzbicki and H. Rapp (2005), "Fracture prediction
   in 4-point bending of an extruded aluminum panel", Thin-Walled Structures,
   43(4): 565-590.
5. T. Wierzbicki, Y. Bao, Y.-W. Lee and Y. Bai (2005), "Calibration and
   evaluation of seven fracture models", International Journal of Mechanical
   Sciences, 47(4-5): 719-743.
6. Y. Bao and T. Wierzbicki (2005), "On the cut-off value of negative
   triaxiality for fracture", Engineering Fracture Mechanics, 72(7):
   1049-1069.
7. X. Teng, T. Wierzbicki, S. Hiermaier and I. Rohr (2005), "Numerical
   prediction of fracture in the Taylor test", International Journal of Solids and
   Structures, 42(9-10): 2929-2948.
   

Scientific &
Professional Societies:

Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers

American Society of
Mechanical Engineering

International Society of DE

Honors & Awards:

Maximilian T. Huber Award for the best work in Mechanics, Polish Academy of
Sciences, 1974

Chairman of the Euromech Colloquium No. 121 on "Dynamics and
Crushing of Plastic Structures", 1978

Chairman of the Summer School on
"Dynamics of Plastic Structures", International Center for Mechanical Sciences,
Udine, Italy, 1979

Polish Academy of Sciences award for the book "Design of
Structures to Dynamic Loads", 1979

Co-chair, First International Symposium,
"Structural Crashworthiness", UK, 1983

Co-chair, Second International
Symposium, "Structural Failure", Cambridge, MA, 1988

Alexander von Humboldt
Foundation, Senior US Scientist Award, 1988-1989

Co-chair, Third
International Symposium, "Structural Crashworthiness and Failure", UK,
1993

Member of the Editorial Boards of the International Journal of Impact
Engineering and International Journal of Vehicle Design

Best,

R.C.

Hi,

 Lsdyna is so poweful to model crash and impact. it gives you flexibilty to write your own UMA and it is explicit.

Azadeh

I think u can use Ls-dyna or abaqus

Jason Zhu Best Regards