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    Why Doesn’t Global Energy Remain the Same in Incremental Analyses? | 
    
     
         
     
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LS-DYNA forming analyses are not constant energy problems like crash simulations. In an LS-DYNA run, assuming you are enforcing the press displacements, you are putting work into the system equal to the press force multiplied by the distance it travels.