{"id":458225,"date":"2026-05-15T07:59:57","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T07:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/ls-dyna-contact-crash-after-element-erosion\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T07:59:57","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T07:59:57","slug":"ls-dyna-contact-crash-after-element-erosion","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/ls-dyna-contact-crash-after-element-erosion\/","title":{"rendered":"LS-DYNA Contact Crash After Element Erosion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;p&gt;When running an impact analysis of termination time 0.25s, after the failure of a single shell element at 0.191s the job immediately terminates. The lsrun.out file records the following error message:&nbsp;&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p class=&#8221;MsoNormal&#8221;&gt;forrtl: severe (157): Program Exception &#8211; access violation&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p class=&#8221;MsoNormal&#8221;&gt;The version of LS-DYNA I am using is 2024, and the contact algorithm I am using for impact is *CONTACT_AUTOMATIC_NODES_TO_SURFACE.&nbsp;&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p class=&#8221;MsoNormal&#8221;&gt;Is it the way I have set up my contact or is there an internal LS-DYNA bug\/issue with the 2024 version?&lt;\/p&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-458225","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-tag-ansys-ls-dyna-1","topic-tag-contact","topic-tag-ls-dyna"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_forum_id":["27814"],"_bbp_topic_id":["458225"],"_bbp_subscription":["687480","58821"],"_bbp_author_ip":["143.117.111.16"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["458241"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["458241"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2026-05-15 11:05:51"],"_bbp_reply_count":["1"],"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":["0"],"_bbp_voice_count":["2"],"_bbp_engagement":["687480","58821"],"_btv_view_count":["100"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"]},"test":"jwallace58qub-ac-uk"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/458225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/458225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}