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 …

Recently, the growing amount of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has brought a huge
threat to the safety management of manned aircraft operation, in which the UAV airborne …

Bird strike analysis has been an essential work in aeroplane design and airworthiness
assessment. This paper presents a numerical method to simulate the deformation and …

In recent years, an increasing interest in innovative solutions design of aircraft structural
components has been raised through both research and industrial fields, aimed at …

To collaboratively improve the lightweight and frontal collision safety performance of the
automobile body, the material–structure–performance integrated multi-objective optimization …

Slat is a lift-improvement device at the leading edge of the aircraft construction. This
component should be rigid enough under aerodynamic loads, and impact-resistant after a …

Bird‐strike analysis is of particular relevance for aircraft engineering applications, where
major wing or fuselage components may suffer for possible collision during flying stage and …

Amongst the most critical in-service loads to be considered during the design phase to
ensure the flight safety the bird strike event plays a key-role. Under this scenario, regulations …

In this paper, the response of different bird constitutive models under high-speed impact was
analysed by numerical methods, and the accuracy of the bird models was evaluated based …

Wind turbine blades are thin-walled composite structures that are highly susceptible to
transverse loads including bird strikes, and the impact-induced damages are likely to affect …