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 …

Bird strikes are one of the most dangerous threats to civil and military flight safety: between
1960 and 2014, they were responsible for the destruction of approximately 150 civil aircraft …

Numerical simulation plays a crucial role in today's aviation industry. Modern computers with
the latest commercial FE codes have fueled the triumph of establishing simulation as a …

The article presents experimental and numerical studies of bird models during impacts with
rigid and deformable targets. The main aim of the studies is the validation of bird models in …

Laminated composites have important and irreplaceable applications in modern
aeronautical structures. They have extraordinary properties, like high strength, stiffness, and …

An experimental and numerical analysis of the response of laminated composite plates
under high‐velocity impact loads of soft body gelatine projectiles (artificial birds) is …

This work deals w ith the development and extension of higher-order models for
delaminated doubly curved composite shells with constant radii of curvatures. The …

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 this work the differential quadrature method is applied to first-order shear deformable
composite plates having a through-width delamination. The semi-layerwise modeling …

To validate the increasingly used numerical models for optimization and verification of the
designs subjected to bird strike, initial (calibration) tests are a necessity prior to full scale …