Key Features

Scalability, Quality & Robustness

Industry-proven, class leading scalability from single core to HPC (High Performance Computing), with repeatability regardless of CPU count, optimized for all modern CPU processors

Innovative Element Formulations

Fast & accurate solutions from under integrated shell and solid elements with physical hourglass stabilization giving quality results at a fraction of fully integrated CPU cost

Extensive Material & Rupture Libraries

Advanced non-linear material laws and failure models, for isotropic, orthotropic, composite, hyper- and viscoelastic materials

Comprehensive Capabilities

Wide array of contact interfaces, boundary conditions, imposed conditions, loading, joints, sensors, and output requests in animation and graph formats

Complex Multiphysics

Battery failure model; Airbag deployment; Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH); Arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian (ALE); Fluid Structure Interaction (FSI); Multiphase fluids

Resources

Easy Adoption

Run LS-DYNA® (*) format models directly in OpenRadioss

User Documentation

From getting started to using advanced features

Contributor Forum

Working together to enhance and add new features

Issue tracking

Suggest new features, or report a bug

Source code

Download the latest version of OpenRadioss source code

Download

Download pre-compiled OpenRadioss software and associated binaries and libraries


OpenRadioss™ Community

WELCOME TO THE OpenRadioss™ Community

The OpenRadioss Community is open to everyone who wants to explore the vast capabilities of explicit finite element analysis code. Designed to be easy to adopt and utilize – and nurtured within a collaborative, inclusive support community – OpenRadioss is the best, most accessible impact simulation software.

Join the OpenRadioss Community to discover the variety of ways to engage – ask and answer questions in community forums, form work groups, develop benchmark tests, develop new capabilities, and more. See what OpenRadioss and the OpenRadioss Community can do to make tomorrow’s world a better one.

Our Community Vision

The OpenRadioss Community believes sustainability-driven complex technical challenges are best addressed within an open, collaborative software framework. By combining the best minds in the world and giving them the tools and environment to make innovative, groundbreaking improvements to products, processes, and workflows, OpenRadioss gives users the power to make the world a safer, greener place.

OpenRadioss™ User Community Events

Since launching in September 2022, OpenRadioss has already established a growing community of users across industry, academia and research.

The first in person and virtual user workshops event was held in Paris in November 2022, and the second in Aachen in June 2023, a selection of the presentations made at the events can be found here: