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Jim Day
Ansys Employee

For high velocity impact, you may need to reduce the time step as the default time step does not take into account initial velocity.   Distance traveled will be 

x = v dt

Let v be the initial velocity, x be some small fraction of your element size, say 1/100th the element size, and dt be the time step size you should not exceed.   You can use a curve (variable LCTM in *CONTROL_TIMESTEP) to set a cap on the time step size.