This article provides an overview of the literature dealing with three types of soft impacts of
concern for the aerospace applications, namely impacts of rain drops, hailstones and birds …

Soft body impacts, namely hail or birds, are a serious and inevitable threat for the integrity of
aircrafts, automobiles and trains windshield, wind towers nacelles, photovoltaic panels …

Drones are a considerable thread to the safe operation of transport aircraft with the wide
application and development trend of drones. The airborne collision safety between the …

Bird strike on aircraft remains a serious threat to flight safety. Experimental investigations
employing real birds are associated with high cost and low reproducibility. Therefore …

The high-precision modeling and collision simulation of UAVs should be conducted to
achieve the dynamic response of UAV and assess UAV safety. In this paper, a high …

An airborne collision between civil Unmanned Aerial Systems (UASs) and manned aircraft is
a potential threat to the aircraft operation safety. In this paper, a structure level UAS collision …

This paper presents the work performed to design a novel tail leading edge structure by
employing the finite element method coupled with the SPH method to simulate the bird strike …

In bird strike analyses, in order to validate the numerical model, usually the obtained
pressure profile from a bird model impacting a rigid plate is compared with the …

The impact of a bird on a structure can, in the first place, be characterized by the pressure
exerted on that structure. In bird strike research, the first step towards bird strike modelling is …

The increasing use of digital twins for design in aerospace industry requires the
development of validation tests at an intermediate scale prior to full-scale testing. In this …