German LS-DYNA Forum 2012

Dear LS-DYNA user,

On the 9th and 10th October 2012, our 11th LS-DYNA Forum will be taking place at the Maritim Hotel in Ulm, Germany. We cordially invite you not only to attend the event but also to take an active part in the program plan by submitting a paper. In your presentation, you can talk about your experiences with LS-DYNA or LS-OPT and you can discuss and exchange these experiences with other users.

User presentations will form the core of the event. General lectures given by renowned speakers are also planned as well as talks on the latest LS-DYNA und LS-OPT develop­ments held by program developers working at LSTC and DYNAmore.

Comprehensive information all about LS-DYNA hard- and software can be obtained from the accompanying exhibi­tion.

The Forum will be accompanied by seminars which will be held during the week of the conference on the subjects of CPM Airbag OoP, ALE and fluid-structure inter­action, meshless methods and on concrete and geomaterial modeling.

Your presentation

You are cordially invited to contribute towards the program plan by submitting a paper. Contributions from the various areas of application of LS-DYNA/LS-OPT are planned. These include:

• Crash
• Occupant safety, airbag, dummy
• Metal forming, cutting
• Optimization, robustness analysis
• Joints, bonding technologies
• Implicit applications
• Pedestrian safety
• Impact, drop tests
• Plastics
• Composites
• Ballistics and penetration
• Material failure
• Forging
• Fluid structure interaction, CFD
• Earthquake safety
• CAE process integration
• ...

from the fields of

• Automotive
• Aerospace
• Mechanical engineering
• Shipbuilding/offshore
• Defense
• Transport
• Biomechanics
• Civil engineering
• Packaging
• ...

Submission of papers

To submit your paper, please send us the title, authors and a short summary (approx. 300 words).

Submit online here or send by E-Mail to Forum

Call for Papers (pdf)

Dates

Submission of proposed paper: 15 June 2012
Author notification: 29 June 2012
Submission of two-page summary for proceedings: 7 Sept. 2012

Length of talk

20 minutes including discussion time

Participation fees

Industry: 540 Euro (470 Euro *)
University: 380 Euro (340 Euro *)
* Early booking discount until 15th June 2012
Reduced rate for speakers:
Industry: 150 Euro, University: 100 Euro
All prices apply per participant, plus VAT.

Hard-/software exhibition and sponsoring

Exhibition and sponsoring opportunities broschure (pdf)

Location

Maritim Hotel Ulm

Basteistraße 40, 89073 Ulm
Tel. +49 (0) 731 923-0
Fax +49 (0) 731 923-1000

Hotel rooms

A restricted number of reduced-price rooms have been reserved for Forum guests at the Maritim Hotel until 13th August 2012. Please book your hotel room yourself under the heading “LS-DYNA”.

Conference languages

German and English

Accompanying seminars

CPM Airbag (8th October 2012), lecturer from LSTC

ALE (11th - 12th October 2012), lecturer: Prof. M. Souli (University Lille, LSTC)

Meshless methods (11th - 12th October 2012), lecturer: Dr. C.-T. Wu (LSTC)

Geo Materials (11th - 12th October 2012), lecturer: Dr. Len Schwer (SE&CS)

Registration and contact

DYNAmore GmbH
Industriestr. 2
70565 Stuttgart, Germany
Tel. +49 (0) 7 11 - 45 96 00 - 0
Fax +49 (0) 7 11 - 45 96 00 - 29
E-Mail: forum@dynamore.de
www.dynamore.de/forum12

We hope we have aroused your interest and would be ­delighted to receive an abstract from you.