# Ansys LS-DYNA Reviews **Vendor:** Ansys, Inc. **Category:** [Simulation & CAE Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/simulation-cae) **Average Rating:** 4.5/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 48 ## About Ansys LS-DYNA ANSYS LS-DYNA is the most commonly used explicit simulation program with multi-physics capabilities to simulate the response of materials to short periods of severe loading. Its many elements, contact formulations, material models and other controls can be used to simulate complex models with control over all the details of the problem. ## Ansys LS-DYNA Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users value the **reliability and accuracy** of LS-DYNA's simulations, enhancing their experience across various industries. (1 reviews) - Users commend the **continuous improvement** of Ansys LS-DYNA, benefiting from responsive updates and enhanced usability. (1 reviews) - Users value the **responsive customer support** from the Oasys Team, integrating user feedback into improvements effectively. (1 reviews) - Users find Ansys LS-DYNA's **ease of use** enhances their efficiency and confidence in model stability and analysis. (1 reviews) - Users value the **efficiency improvement** in Ansys LS-DYNA, facilitating stable model building and streamlined design processes. (1 reviews) - Users value the **intuitive design and responsiveness** of the Oasys suite, enhancing modeling efficiency and usability. (1 reviews) - Multiphysics Simulation (1 reviews) - Setup Ease (1 reviews) - Simulation (1 reviews) - Time Saving (1 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users find the learning curve for LS-DYNA to be **difficult** , requiring prior knowledge and training to achieve results. (1 reviews) - Users are frustrated by the **high costs** and inflexible licensing terms of Ansys LS-DYNA, limiting accessibility. (1 reviews) - Users express concerns about the **expensive licensing** of Ansys LS-DYNA, noting rising costs and inflexible terms. (1 reviews) - Users find LS-DYNA's steep **learning curve** challenging, requiring prior knowledge to achieve accurate results. (1 reviews) - Users find LS-DYNA **not user-friendly** , requiring extensive prior knowledge to achieve accurate results effectively. (1 reviews) ## Ansys LS-DYNA Reviews ### 1. LS-DYNA Best for crash analysis **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Akshit V. | Technical Specialist - CAx Automation, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 10, 2026 **What do you like best about Ansys LS-DYNA?** LS-DYNA's standout strength is its explicit dynamics solver, which excels at simulating extreme, short-duration events like crashes, impacts, and explosions with remarkable accuracy. What makes it truly powerful is its massive parallelization capability — it scales efficiently across hundreds of CPU cores, dramatically cutting down solve times for complex, large-scale models **What do you dislike about Ansys LS-DYNA?** The biggest downside of LS-DYNA is its steep learning curve — it's far from beginner-friendly, and even minor mismatches in card definitions or material parameters can produce completely wrong results without obvious warnings. On top of that, it carries a high licensing cost, making it hard to justify for smaller firms, and much of the advanced knowledge is locked in tribal wisdom among experienced users rather than accessible documentation **What problems is Ansys LS-DYNA solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use it to solve crash simulations clients designs related to automobile industry . It's very useful as it works consistently on different designs and configurations ### 2. Reliable, Accurate Multiphysics Simulations with trust of LS-dyna. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** AJAY S. | CAE Engineer, Chemicals, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 14, 2026 **What do you like best about Ansys LS-DYNA?** LS-Dyna is an industry-wide, well-known software for its explicit-domain simulation capabilities, serving industries such as automotive, aerospace, blast and mining, heavy equipment, chemicals, and more. I especially like LS-Dyna’s multiphysics simulation capability, along with the reliability and accuracy of its simulations. It also offers broad support for many element and material types, including options for degradation and failure-propagation behaviors. **What do you dislike about Ansys LS-DYNA?** LS-dyna has wide variety of the material library along with various cards to help stabilizes the solution and achieve the convergence. That also becomes its downside as minute variation or definition mismatch in the cards can results in completely useless results. Unless and until you know how its each parameter works and how to use each card its really difficult to get appropriate results. Its not at all beginner friendly, You can not directly start learning LS-dyna without any prior understanding or training in FEA domain and tools like, ansys, abaqus, nastran or optistruct. **What problems is Ansys LS-DYNA solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using Ansys LS-dyna for the virtual simulation and validation of the plastic components used in Automotive and Electrical industries, which saves our cost on physical validation and reduces the cycle time of design validation by implementing multiple iterations in virtual platform. this is huge cost and time saving for our industry. ### 3. Robust Solver for Impact Simulations with a Bit of Room for Improvement **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aiman T. | PhD Candidate, Civil Engineering, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 24, 2026 **What do you like best about Ansys LS-DYNA?** I am actively using Ansys LS-DYNA for crashworthiness simulations and impact analysis. It's great for situations when I need to see how materials behave under extreme loads or high-speed conditions. The solver is incredibly robust, handling large deformations and complex contact scenarios without crashing. Additionally, I like the wide range of material models, which gives me options to simulate different mechanical behaviors for composites and metals. The initial setup was easy enough, and installing the solver itself was pretty straightforward. **What do you dislike about Ansys LS-DYNA?** It takes a while to get comfortable with key word structure and the settings. Very rarely the pre processing can feel a bit clunky too. Better documentation with examples ranging from simple to complex would definitely be of big help. I would like to see more practical tutorials that walk through from start to finish. Besides that I think it would be better if the pre process has better default settings so that I don't have to tweak so many small things to get the stable run. **What problems is Ansys LS-DYNA solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use Ansys LS-DYNA for crashworthiness simulations and impact analysis. It helps me understand how a design will hold up in real crash or drop events and test material behavior under extreme loads or high-speed conditions. ### 4. Oasys Suite - the complete package **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** John B. | Engineering Director, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 06, 2025 **What do you like best about Ansys LS-DYNA?** While the Dyna code has evolved, Oasys suite has remained concise and logical to use. It provides Vectayn Ltd the confidence to build stable models and checking prior to submitting the job. Also, it is now easy access to all packages within the suite which provides an all round suite. The Oasys Team listen to our requests and suggestions, incorporating them into next releases. As expectations of analysis have changed, from a bolt on to vehicle programmes to a central process in design development, Oasys Suite has continued to evolve to allow analysts to work efficiently. It is clear that the development team have input from engineers working on live programmes and experiencing what users actually need. **What do you dislike about Ansys LS-DYNA?** No much to be honest. Prices are creeping up and the license term isn't as flexible as once was. **What problems is Ansys LS-DYNA solving and how is that benefiting you?** The advancements in Reporter to incorporate the legal crash protocols. Sometimes simple things are most effective. Recently we learnt about Panel positioning in Primer. Switches for visibility of particles in airbag analyses The new feature allowing users to state the file size they need when outputting animations will save us time when preparing results for clients ### 5. Explicit dynamics analysis **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** TUNCAY K. | R&D Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 21, 2022 **What do you like best about Ansys LS-DYNA?** I have used Mechanical APDL interface of Ansys and LS-Dyna as a solution engine. I could obtain precise results from very difficult non linear dynamic FEA models. **What do you dislike about Ansys LS-DYNA?** I could not find implicit dynamics settings for slow metal forming simulations. I spent really long simulation time for the results from explicit dynamics analysis. **What problems is Ansys LS-DYNA solving and how is that benefiting you?** I tried to solve mostly roll bending of metal plates into circular geometry, it was impossible without LS-Dyna solver. Because I and other simulation engineers had tried Autodyn and failed ### 6. Great Analysis Program **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kubilay . | Project Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 11, 2023 **What do you like best about Ansys LS-DYNA?** Ansys is a great program for mechanical analysis.Especially meshing and force capabilities is very great and there are a lot of options. Besides, UX is very useful for new users. **What do you dislike about Ansys LS-DYNA?** Basic modelling tools and material library need to improve **What problems is Ansys LS-DYNA solving and how is that benefiting you?** As a engineer I need a lot of mechanical performance calculations.So it would help about to solving advanced engineering problems ### 7. A powerful Explicit solver with easy to use keywords and commands **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Hritesh K. | Graduate Engineer Trainee (New Initiatives Group), Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 26, 2022 **What do you like best about Ansys LS-DYNA?** LS-Prepost which is open source helps you to get used to the software's interface without having a licence and once you have confidence on using one can get a license. **What do you dislike about Ansys LS-DYNA?** The user interface needs to be updated frequently, when compared to the other ansys analysis tools the UI in LS-DYNA looks outdated and sometimes LS-Prepost hangs and the entire work will be gone. **What problems is Ansys LS-DYNA solving and how is that benefiting you?** ANSYS LS-DYNA is an analysis software which solves physics problems numerically by using the concept of finite elements. It is mostly popular for dynamic problems as it uses explicit solver by default. ### 8. excellent experience **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Harish S. | Student, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 15, 2022 **What do you like best about Ansys LS-DYNA?** Ansys LS-DYNA allows you to simulate and analyse various complex problems it has easy to use interface with so much detailing wich makes it easier for the user to do enhanced problems. **What do you dislike about Ansys LS-DYNA?** i couldn't say anything wrong with the software because it was so comforting to use, but the user interface could be much more efficient and simplistic design making it even more comfortable for the user. **What problems is Ansys LS-DYNA solving and how is that benefiting you?** Ansys LS-DYNA solves complex crash analysis problems for engineers. It is used to simulate the 3D Model designed for understanding its characteristics which when crashed. ### 9. A good tool for early graduates to learn and powerful Crash Simulation Tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shivnandan K. | Tools Design Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 26, 2022 **What do you like best about Ansys LS-DYNA?** The best thing about Ls-Dyna as a solver and modeller is that you can use any other CAE modelling software whichever may be available to you or according to your ease. Solver **What do you dislike about Ansys LS-DYNA?** If basic modelling tools can be improved it would be great. I understand that it is meant to be used as a solver but it would encourage students to try it at the very least because there is not a lot of online content available. **Recommendations to others considering Ansys LS-DYNA:** One of the best solvers but I would recommend using Hypermesh for modelling purpose from my personal experience. It allows you multiple tools to make your work easier. **What problems is Ansys LS-DYNA solving and how is that benefiting you?** We were working with another team to develop better safety standards for Formula Student vehicles. The idea was to understand and develop an impact attenuator used in Formula Student vehicles. ### 10. Very good experience **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** S.HARISH S. | Student, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 31, 2022 **What do you like best about Ansys LS-DYNA?** I did my final year thesis in Ansys LS-Dyna. Ansys was a user friendly software and every tool was easily accessible. The large variety of analysis tools have us upperhand in our project. **What do you dislike about Ansys LS-DYNA?** Since I had a very good experience I would say there is nothing really to improve from my point of view. The user interface could be much better when compared to other softwares **What problems is Ansys LS-DYNA solving and how is that benefiting you?** For my final year thesis I did crash simulation of a bumper it was very helpfull, And that made me productive now, I could easily simulate any crash now using ansys ### 11. Well, whats is not mostly liked in Ansys is the quality of the mesh. **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nagraj T. | Project Team Lead, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 18, 2022 **What do you like best about Ansys LS-DYNA?** The interface is very easy to use unlike any other software. Easy to navigate between ANSYS and DYNA. Easy to learn and expertiment. Userguide is elaborted which is much useful. **What do you dislike about Ansys LS-DYNA?** More examples in the help file should be included. More tutorials will help us to gain more knowledge and work accordingly. The meshing quality to be improved a lot. **What problems is Ansys LS-DYNA solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mainly, explicit-based problems which are non-linear in nature. Crash analysis for vehicles, aircraft structures, blast simulation, and bird impact analysis. Undoudtedly the interface makes things easy to solve which is not laborous. ### 12. DYNAMIC **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Devaraju U. | Research Engineer III, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 10, 2022 **What do you like best about Ansys LS-DYNA?** Dynamic, drop test simulations, NON-LINEAR MATERIALS MODULES, SIMULATIONS IN AUTOMOTIVE, RETAIL INDUSTRIES, SEMICONDUCTOR INDUSTRIES, AND IN-HOME APPLIANCES. CASE **What do you dislike about Ansys LS-DYNA?** Need more supportive documents in semiconductor and automotive industries, CASE STUDIES MATERIALS, MATERIAL MODULES, CONTACT NON LINEARITY, SOLVER CONVERGENCE ISSUES **What problems is Ansys LS-DYNA solving and how is that benefiting you?** Drop and impact simulations, DYNAMIC SIMULATIONS, FATIGUE, THERMAL FATIGUE CALUCALTIONS, TRANSIENT SIMULATIONS, LINEAR AND NON-LINEAR ANALYSIS, MODAL, FRA, RANDOM ### 13. Using Ansys from last 7 years. You can do almost everything you imagined as simulation engineer **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pavan P. | Structural Mechanics Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 14, 2022 **What do you like best about Ansys LS-DYNA?** Results of my analytical calculations are matching exactly with some tolerance with Ansys LSDyna **What do you dislike about Ansys LS-DYNA?** I don't find anything in Ansys ls dyna about to dislike **What problems is Ansys LS-DYNA solving and how is that benefiting you?** Recently solved problem on simulation of ocean waves on pumps. We are able to solve this with ansys hydrodynamic diffraction and with the help of hydrodynamic response analysis. ### 14. Ls-dyna is a great simulation software **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 08, 2022 **What do you like best about Ansys LS-DYNA?** Ls-dyna has all simulation capabilities with good accuracy of results. Materials & help are easily available on internet. Tutorials are in easy & simple language as compared to other tools. **What do you dislike about Ansys LS-DYNA?** Accuracy is less compared to other solver like Pamcrash. Pre-processeor is not upto the mark. **What problems is Ansys LS-DYNA solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am using Ls-dyna for automotive Crash & Static simulation. It helps to anticipate physical test case scenarios. Saves lot of time. ### 15. Best Analysis Software **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jay M. | ESG Analyst, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 01, 2022 **What do you like best about Ansys LS-DYNA?** The way it helps model dynamic scenarios to analyse different real life situations in an intricate manner. **What do you dislike about Ansys LS-DYNA?** The software is heavy for ordinary laptops. **What problems is Ansys LS-DYNA solving and how is that benefiting you?** We modelled vehicle crash scenarios for SAE BAJA competition and they were very accurate. ### 16. Simulate to evaluate. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 14, 2022 **What do you like best about Ansys LS-DYNA?** Software is so easy to understand and learn. User friendly with good GUI. We can solve larger probablems very easily. **What do you dislike about Ansys LS-DYNA?** It would be better, if we get some post processing tools to view in detail. **What problems is Ansys LS-DYNA solving and how is that benefiting you?** Am using LS dyna, to check the crash and Safety performance and to find crash worthyness. We had some other softwares but those are not much easy as this. ### 17. I have total 16 years of experience in Ls Dyna **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Hanumanth T. | CAE expert Chassis group, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 17, 2022 **What do you like best about Ansys LS-DYNA?** Many elements type which is useful for different kind of analysis.User will have many choices **What do you dislike about Ansys LS-DYNA?** Too many material modules will confuse the user and also difficult for user **What problems is Ansys LS-DYNA solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mainly on coupled filed analysis Ansys Lsdyna is very good tool ### 18. Ansys is one the best solver are modelling software for cae engineers **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 24, 2022 **What do you like best about Ansys LS-DYNA?** Ansys ls dyna helps to handle the critical project..its includes modelling as well solver inbuilt.that is very helpful and time saving. **What do you dislike about Ansys LS-DYNA?** I dislike about ansys is we can model detailing for Plastic components. **What problems is Ansys LS-DYNA solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's helps me to model very fast for solid components and it's time saving software..complete project we can handle it in. ### 19. Is it hard to use Ansys Ls-Dyna **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jerome T. | Research Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 31, 2021 **What do you like best about Ansys LS-DYNA?** Ls-Dyna, is very powerful simulation software. You can do a lot of stuff based on your creativity and how to define a problem. **What do you dislike about Ansys LS-DYNA?** A very complex user interface, it is very challenging to learn if you are new to the simulation field. **What problems is Ansys LS-DYNA solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am using it for process simulation, composite forming, and thermal analysis. The benefit is they have a lot of physics modules come together in one place. ### 20. Oldest software for Crash or Impact analysis. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rahul S. | Asso prof, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 23, 2021 **What do you like best about Ansys LS-DYNA?** Maximum number of material models are present for crash or impact analysis as compared with other competiting FEA softwares. Cheap as compared with other FEA software for nonlinear analysis. Have reached maturity for crash or impact simulation, so most trusted results, at least for crash or impact analysis. In high demand (For Job ) in automobile companies. **What do you dislike about Ansys LS-DYNA?** Only specific for non linear problems. Not a complete package for all type of analysis which are be useful for Academic institutions where students are working on different types of problems. **Recommendations to others considering Ansys LS-DYNA:** Highly recommended for crash or impact analysis. **What problems is Ansys LS-DYNA solving and how is that benefiting you?** Crash or impact analysis. From low velocity or drop weight to high-velocity impact analysis on metal and composite structures. ### 21. Impact responce of the Concrete structure **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** salaimanimagudam M. | Author, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 08, 2021 **What do you like best about Ansys LS-DYNA?** The Ansys LS-DYNA is the perfect package for all kinds of custom material and composite material, especially for fibered concrete during the impact and dynamic stimulations. **What do you dislike about Ansys LS-DYNA?** The Ansys LS-DYNA needs to create the tutorial video for custom material stimulations such as fibered concrete and functional graded concretes. it very hard to find good tutorials **Recommendations to others considering Ansys LS-DYNA:** Kindly make more tutorials in concrete structural stimulation **What problems is Ansys LS-DYNA solving and how is that benefiting you?** The Ansys LS-DYNA is one of the tops most stimulation packages that can be used for all types of stimulation in concrete structures and steel structures to ensure the structural safety ### 22. Creating a .k file **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Erdal K. | MSc Student, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 22, 2021 **What do you like best about Ansys LS-DYNA?** It is very easy to create the files of explicit solutions because the ANSYS user interface is easy. When defining contact cards for LS-DYNA, master and slave selections can be made very quickly. For LS-DYNA, material cards are easily defined to geometries. According to the analysis type, the changes of the cards can be arranged from the table. **What do you dislike about Ansys LS-DYNA?** Only tetra and hexa elements are used in explicit analysis of solid elements. Due to the complexity of the geometries, ANSYS LS-DYNA can sometimes create weld elements. Explicit is not suitable for solution type in weld elements. **Recommendations to others considering Ansys LS-DYNA:** You can easily make contact and material adjustments and realize all your explicit solutions. **What problems is Ansys LS-DYNA solving and how is that benefiting you?** I made all setup cases in ANSYS LS-DYNA to perform mine blast analysis. It shortened my total project duration by about 4 months. Therefore, the project was quite successful and ended early. I made all the additional changes I wanted over the .k file I created and optimized it. ### 23. LSDYNA the best in class FEA software around the world **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Fabian Leonov S. | CAE Manager Engineering /COO, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 19, 2021 **What do you like best about Ansys LS-DYNA?** LsDyna it is the most powerful and robust CAE software around the world **What do you dislike about Ansys LS-DYNA?** LsDyna it is perfect in my opinion I do not have any problem **What problems is Ansys LS-DYNA solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have solved many physical problems with LsDyna and reduced costs in my projects and have generated feasible designs ### 24. Good and functional to learnompartiría **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jesus Eduardo R. | Director, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 20, 2020 **What do you like best about Ansys LS-DYNA?** It allows us to prevent possible failures in projects executed in real life. It is also a useful and easy-to-use tool. It has a wide range of capabilities to simulate deformation problems in materials, which allows anticipating the problems that can affect parts, with the type of material used **What do you dislike about Ansys LS-DYNA?** Nothing, works well and adapts to many areas of engineering **Recommendations to others considering Ansys LS-DYNA:** Delivers what it promises **What problems is Ansys LS-DYNA solving and how is that benefiting you?** When planning a new production line, it makes it easier for us to review what materials work best for these requirements and if they adapt to our needs. In addition, it is easy to handle even large quantities of parts, and the interactions and the load step between complex behaviors are precisely modeled. ### 25. LS Dyna for explicit dynamic simulations **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 17, 2020 **What do you like best about Ansys LS-DYNA?** capabilities of dynamic simulations, calculation speed,failure tests, various types of simulations (impact simulations, penetration...), easier to use than other software for dynamics simulations, very good results output. postprocessing is easy to understand and results are easy to read. Sotfware can provide "real" results that can be compared to physical testing. Great material libary with many materials of various types and origins.Various contact tools and models for almost every industrial application.Wide element libary for all calculations **What do you dislike about Ansys LS-DYNA?** User interface, must be experienced in FEA to use solver properly, software could be more user friendly. I would suggest to master the FEA theory first and expand user knowledge of the various contacts and models before using LS-Dyna as the "black box" software because lack of knowledge in the field can easily mislead engineer in thinking that results are correct, but in reality mistakes can easily be made. **Recommendations to others considering Ansys LS-DYNA:** User must have prior knowledge of the FEA and dynamical behaviour of materials to use software correctly but when basic knowledge is mastered software is really useful and can help engineers in various fields of engineering and simulation types. Considering using LS-Dyna without previous experience in the field can be really hard and I'd not recommend it to anyone. **What problems is Ansys LS-DYNA solving and how is that benefiting you?** Composite dynamics simulations for strenght test simulations for Formula Student race car, penetration tests, fatigue analysis, dynamic load behaviour. User must have prior knowledge of the FEA and dynamical behaviour of materials to use software correctly but when basic knowledge is mastered software is really useful and can help engineers in various fields of engineering and simulation types. ### 26. leading in the market high potential **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ajit L. | CAE Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 09, 2020 **What do you like best about Ansys LS-DYNA?** leading technology with more user friendly and there is an actual correlation between software results and physical testing **What do you dislike about Ansys LS-DYNA?** costing is the main issue, it should be available in discount price to grab the market more **Recommendations to others considering Ansys LS-DYNA:** definitely, you can go ahead and try out some initial simulations and if it fits with your requirements then you can go ahead. the technically Ansys LS-DYNA is very strong and GUI is nice. Automations are easily possible, which will reduce your solution time and increase accuracy. **What problems is Ansys LS-DYNA solving and how is that benefiting you?** actual non-linear high dynamic problems are easily solved through this tool. correlation between physical test is also very good. ### 27. Dyna - A complete solution for Simulation problems **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** senthil k. | CAE Technical Analyst, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 22, 2020 **What do you like best about Ansys LS-DYNA?** It is highly mathematically constructed solver with user friendly GUI **What do you dislike about Ansys LS-DYNA?** The solver versions are yielding difference resutls for different pick up **What problems is Ansys LS-DYNA solving and how is that benefiting you?** Used to solve crash analysis, non linear dynamic and quasi static analysis. We can get the solution at quick turn around ### 28. It is one of best user friendly Analysis software for better real-time results. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Raghavendra p. | Senior Mechanical Design Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 29, 2020 **What do you like best about Ansys LS-DYNA?** Its capability to calculate many complex and real-time problems more accurately in non-linear dynamic FEA. **What do you dislike about Ansys LS-DYNA?** It is being weak in implicit time integration. **Recommendations to others considering Ansys LS-DYNA:** Strongly advice to recommend Ansys LS-DYNA for its user interface and best results. **What problems is Ansys LS-DYNA solving and how is that benefiting you?** The problems with Non-linear dynamic finite element analysis is the most used by me and Have realized it to be giving me quite accurate results. ### 29. One stop solution for all kinds of simulation problems **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** harish k. | CAE Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 25, 2020 **What do you like best about Ansys LS-DYNA?** 1) Wide variety of material models 2) post processing and handling of results is really easy 3) Capable of handling different kinds of simulations 4) very good tool for explicit dynamics **What do you dislike about Ansys LS-DYNA?** 1) Could have been more user friendly. 2) GUI could be better 3) preprocessing is not easy **What problems is Ansys LS-DYNA solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am working on impact and explicit dynamic problems ### 30. ANSYS does static-dynamic analysis with large plastic deformation; LS-DYNA shows component fractures **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 21, 2020 **What do you like best about Ansys LS-DYNA?** Both. Ansys shows the stress & strain distribution in a machine with multi-components under static, dynamic, and thermal loads, while LS-DYNA shows the component fractures as the material reaches the fracture point gradually. **What do you dislike about Ansys LS-DYNA?** LS-DYNA needs provide more advanced modeling module. **What problems is Ansys LS-DYNA solving and how is that benefiting you?** I used ANSYS and LS-DYNA for thermal dynamics, fatigue, seismic analyses for nuclear reactor components and machineries. ### 31. Reliable work-tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Shipbuilding | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 22, 2020 **What do you like best about Ansys LS-DYNA?** Compared to normal LS-Dyna is the ability to prepare everything in Ansys pre/post-processor and all the benefits that it draws (easy integration with other analyses in ANSYS **What do you dislike about Ansys LS-DYNA?** it benefit is also its drawback. sometimes it gets really complex and than different approach has to be taken. **Recommendations to others considering Ansys LS-DYNA:** if you are using Ansys as your main FE tool, and are in need of a solver capabilities like LS_Dyna, than there is no other industry proven software that can compete. **What problems is Ansys LS-DYNA solving and how is that benefiting you?** Transient colision analysis ### 32. Excellent for explicit dynamics **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sebastian R. | Mechanical Design Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 16, 2020 **What do you like best about Ansys LS-DYNA?** Accuracy of results highly depends on the mesh density **What do you dislike about Ansys LS-DYNA?** I prefer to develop in Abaqus rather than Ansysbas fat as i am aware **What problems is Ansys LS-DYNA solving and how is that benefiting you?** I used widely in industry, i work fot an auyomotivr engine company and out team use for crash impact ### 33. Ansys is Very user-friendly software **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anshul R. | Design Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 22, 2020 **What do you like best about Ansys LS-DYNA?** I like it's user interface and easy to mesh quality. **What do you dislike about Ansys LS-DYNA?** In actual if we go lesser element size it takes more time to mesh. **What problems is Ansys LS-DYNA solving and how is that benefiting you?** I used Ansys LS-Dyna in My studies were we able to solve Pressure vessel problems. ### 34. one of the easy to learn and use softwares **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 11, 2020 **What do you like best about Ansys LS-DYNA?** Quick and simple. As a beginner when i started using LS- DYNA i did not have any a lot of trooubles getting the hang of it **What do you dislike about Ansys LS-DYNA?** It is not the best available commercial FE software for implicit time integration. **Recommendations to others considering Ansys LS-DYNA:** Go for it **What problems is Ansys LS-DYNA solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use it to simulate multiphase flows in automotive turbochargers.One advantage of the Ls-Dyna is that it is embedded with heaps of material models ### 35. LS Dyna good at Explicit,i expecting more development in LS Dyna implicit simulation. **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shubham P. | Mechanics simulation engineer , Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 23, 2020 **What do you like best about Ansys LS-DYNA?** User GUI. Material data base for Explicit analysis. **What do you dislike about Ansys LS-DYNA?** Few control card should be automated. Salection and definition of contact takes time. **Recommendations to others considering Ansys LS-DYNA:** NA **What problems is Ansys LS-DYNA solving and how is that benefiting you?** Crash and stone impact analysis. One quasi static problem tried to slove. ### 36. Best for Dynamic Analysis **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sabir K. | Design Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 27, 2020 **What do you like best about Ansys LS-DYNA?** Good for Structural Analysis as well, Integration with other tools. **What do you dislike about Ansys LS-DYNA?** User Interface can be simplified little bit. **What problems is Ansys LS-DYNA solving and how is that benefiting you?** Dynamic Simulation of Bearings ### 37. Explicit dynamic simulations **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Antonio R. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 26, 2020 **What do you like best about Ansys LS-DYNA?** It is highly mathematically constructed solver with user friendly GUI **What do you dislike about Ansys LS-DYNA?** LS-DYNA needs provide more advanced modeling module. **What problems is Ansys LS-DYNA solving and how is that benefiting you?** Transient colision analysis ### 38. Simulating the world to better it **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Aviation & Aerospace | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 19, 2020 **What do you like best about Ansys LS-DYNA?** Availability of handbook to help understand clearly **What do you dislike about Ansys LS-DYNA?** Not many videos or advertising to improve the reach **Recommendations to others considering Ansys LS-DYNA:** Solve live problems and understand the physics involved in their problem statements Almost realistic results can be seen virtually **What problems is Ansys LS-DYNA solving and how is that benefiting you?** Sheet metal forming Crash analysis Thermal analysis ### 39. I have used LS-DYNA for almost 6 years to simulate drop tests of electronic packages. Liked it! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 25, 2020 **What do you like best about Ansys LS-DYNA?** Similar to ANSYS Classic. Less memory and however, less accurate than sparse solver **What do you dislike about Ansys LS-DYNA?** Customer service is good. Needs other skills than ANSYS **Recommendations to others considering Ansys LS-DYNA:** Customer support and license price **What problems is Ansys LS-DYNA solving and how is that benefiting you?** The implicit solution is less accurate but computationally effective. ### 40. Mechanical Engineering Student, Formula Student Experience & Aerospace Industry **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 22, 2020 **What do you like best about Ansys LS-DYNA?** Meshing, non-linear analysis, Graphical User Interface **What do you dislike about Ansys LS-DYNA?** Post-processing, 3D Model Design not really effective, there are many CAD systems out there for this function. **Recommendations to others considering Ansys LS-DYNA:** Get familiar with FEA theory and discretisation first. **What problems is Ansys LS-DYNA solving and how is that benefiting you?** Non-linear dynamic simulations ### 41. Excellent for sumulation problems **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 27, 2020 **What do you like best about Ansys LS-DYNA?** It is highly mathematically constructed solver with user friendly **What do you dislike about Ansys LS-DYNA?** LS-DYNA needs provide more advanced modeling module **What problems is Ansys LS-DYNA solving and how is that benefiting you?** Crash and stone impact analysis ### 42. I have used LS-DYNA for my project work on crash analysis **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Airlines/Aviation | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 15, 2020 **What do you like best about Ansys LS-DYNA?** Most important feature is the result & solution **What do you dislike about Ansys LS-DYNA?** Everything is good as per my project scope **What problems is Ansys LS-DYNA solving and how is that benefiting you?** Crash analysis of bumper with different materials ### 43. LS-Dyna the best software for crash simulations **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Carmine C. | Matlab: a very simple way to get an easier life, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 02, 2019 **What do you like best about Ansys LS-DYNA?** What I like most is the fact that with LS-Dyna you can really visualize digitally what in the real world happen, so translating it in more powerful words, you can save money and obtaining 99% the same results of a crash in real life. **What do you dislike about Ansys LS-DYNA?** What I dislike most is the pre-post because it is no admissibile that only because it is free, it is very bad in creating the bulk code. First of all the graphics layout is terrible, mostly if you use the old one. There is not the ctrl+z function shortucut to undone actions which is very very bad! **Recommendations to others considering Ansys LS-DYNA:** Before using Ls-Dyna please give a read to the manuel at least for the most common commands, mostly if you use the old layout which is just based on numbered pages with a logic not so handy. Moreover with a good knowledge of the command you can edit the key file also with the block note and sometimes make adjustements way faster than using the pre-post, an example could be if you have to change the mass of a lot of elements, with the note you can simply using the command substituing all (it's a very useful tip) **What problems is Ansys LS-DYNA solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am solving crash simulations before doing them, so once performing it in the crash tunnel I compare results to have a better visual on it. We work with a lot of industries which ask us to perform crash tests in the tunnel, so with the software license we have a lot of costumers from all europe. ### 44. FEM tool is mostly used for non-linear problems. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 18, 2019 **What do you like best about Ansys LS-DYNA?** Ls-Dyna is a FEM tool primarily used to solve nonlinear problems such as crash analysis, bomb blast analysis, and high impact analysis. This tool is mainly used by the automotive industry for crash analysis and the defense industry for blast analysis. **What do you dislike about Ansys LS-DYNA?** Ls-Dyna is not a useful tool for 3-D modeling like SolidWorks. **Recommendations to others considering Ansys LS-DYNA:** A very useful FEM tool to solve non-linear problems like crash analysis and blast impact analysis. **What problems is Ansys LS-DYNA solving and how is that benefiting you?** To solve the response of the human body against a land mine blast when a blast occurs inside the vehicle. Conduct impact analysis in the case of a vehicle accident. ### 45. Highly powerful software but finite element understanding is required **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vignesh M. | Teaching Assistant, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 28, 2019 **What do you like best about Ansys LS-DYNA?** The software is highly powerful and widely used in industries. this software saves a lot of money and time in production and prototyping. **What do you dislike about Ansys LS-DYNA?** This software needs a lot of inputs and understanding for us to give and inputs and also to understand the output. a small mistake can cost us huge. **Recommendations to others considering Ansys LS-DYNA:** A user friendly guide inside the software would be of a great help. I would recommend to strengthen the basis in finite element and then use the software as the result make more sense and also the tool. **What problems is Ansys LS-DYNA solving and how is that benefiting you?** We understand the failure and calculate the factor of safety for the loads on the designed component or assembly. ### 46. LS Dyna used for nonlinear problem **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Transportation/Trucking/Railroad | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 18, 2019 **What do you like best about Ansys LS-DYNA?** LS-Dyna is a FEM tool which is used for solving the nonlinear problem. Mostly it is used in the defense sector. **What do you dislike about Ansys LS-DYNA?** The CAD drawing feature is not of top level, which means it is not a good preprocessor tool. **Recommendations to others considering Ansys LS-DYNA:** For non-linear analysis, it is the best FEM tool **What problems is Ansys LS-DYNA solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have solved a problem named as a simulation of a vehicle under blast load. ### 47. Great software for nonlinear FEA **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 20, 2019 **What do you like best about Ansys LS-DYNA?** The variety of material models User friendliness for setting up problems Easy post processing **What do you dislike about Ansys LS-DYNA?** Meshing is hard loading and BC conditions may become confusing **What problems is Ansys LS-DYNA solving and how is that benefiting you?** Impact analysis head injury crash ### 48. User friendly and innovative **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Research | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 02, 2016 **What do you like best about Ansys LS-DYNA?** the possibility to add new features and mostly on composites and material modelling **What do you dislike about Ansys LS-DYNA?** Using the workbench is not easy for me. so I am still using the classic one. **What problems is Ansys LS-DYNA solving and how is that benefiting you?** Composites, material models, etc ## Ansys LS-DYNA Discussions - [What does Ansys LS-DYNA do?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-does-ansys-ls-dyna-do) - [What is Ansys mechanical?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/ansys-ls-dyna-what-is-ansys-mechanical) - [What is Autodyn?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-autodyn) - [Is there a dedicated Ansys LS-DYNA handbook available?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/34019-is-there-a-dedicated-ansys-ls-dyna-handbook-available) - 1 upvote - [which future modules will be there in upcomming market?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/33565-which-future-modules-will-be-there-in-upcomming-market) - 1 upvote - [View Ansys LS-DYNA pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/ansys-ls-dyna/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-28+11%3A29%3A52+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=69f17ac9-cbd1-415e-8ccc-4370da0be56d&secure%5Btoken%5D=9df112232d28330359ab9f760cc0e7fd53ebbbf9be109ee80f5e4d9fa4ec578c&format=llm_user) ## Ansys LS-DYNA Integrations - [Altair Hypermesh](https://www.g2.com/products/altair-hypermesh/reviews) ## Ansys LS-DYNA Features **Design** - 3D/solid modeling Tools - Drawing Tools - Editing Tools - Rendering tools **Tools** - Fluid analysis - Finite element analysis - Multibody dynamics **Work** - Discrete event modeling - Continuous event modeling - Mechanical event simulation - Manufacturing process simulation - Integrate **Environment** - Hardware support - Task - Manage Multiple Profiles - Command Clarity ## Top Ansys LS-DYNA Alternatives - [Abaqus](https://www.g2.com/products/abaqus/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (53 reviews) - [Altair Hypermesh](https://www.g2.com/products/altair-hypermesh/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (84 reviews) - [Altair OptiStruct](https://www.g2.com/products/altair-optistruct/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (33 reviews)