Your event is slow (seconds to hours) and you care only about final static equilibrium — use implicit static instead. Final Verdict Explicit dynamics is not a universal tool but an essential specialized method. Its power lies in mimicking the physical world's causality: forces cause accelerations, which update velocities and positions directly. For high-speed, transient, failure-dominated problems, no other method matches its robustness. However, applying it to inappropriate problems (like slow creep or thermal stress) will waste computational resources and may yield meaningless results.