New Developments in LS-OPT

This paper provides an overview of current LS-OPT® development and focuses mainly on the following new features: (i) New wizards for LS-Dyna statistics and metamodel-based optimization, (ii) visualization of the Pareto Optimal Front (iii) new optimizers for metamodel optimization, (iv) generic result extraction, (v) algorithm settings, (vi) metamodel evaluation and (vii) improved experimental design for generating designs in reasonable space.