October 22, 1998 Meeting held at ANSYS Inc.

Pressure Sciences Inc. used ANSYS/LS-DYNA to model a propane tank truck impacting a rigid wall. This presentation explained some of the details of that analysis including how to use a simplified version of the equation of state model to simulate Boyles' law.

Tank Impact Animation

This animation (avi) file is 1.89 MB. It shows a simulation of the 1/2 symmetry model of a propane tank with cylindrical head impacting a vertical concrete column, and shearing it from it place..