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D -- ENHANCE AND EXPAND LS-DYNA3D SOL DTFH61-97-Q-00037 DUE 122396 POC Viola Compton, Contract Specialist, HAM-40G, (202) 366-4239. The Federal Highway Administration plans to negotiate a Purchase Order with Livermore Software Technology Corporation to enhance and expand their existing LS-DYNA3D vehicle crash model so that output from a vehicle handling simulation program can be used as initial input to the crash simulation model in DYNA3D. This effort will address the teps required to accurately initialize the orientation and velocity of the vehicle model in LS-DYNA3D using the results of the vehicle handling simulation. It will also add a new failure criteria for wood materials. LSTC prosses the source code for LS-DYNA3D. This is a Simplified Acquisition. (0340)

Loren Data Corp. http://www.ld.com (SYN# 0023 19961209\D-0002.SOL)