A comprehensive three-dimensional nonlinear finite element analyses were carried out to examine the effects of the geometry and the incidence angle of canonical 4-lb bird striking a stationary fan blade using LS-DYNA. Three aspects of the work were accordingly examined. The first was concerned with the modeling framework used. The second with the constitutive law that governs the behaviour of the bird. The third was concerned with the influence of the geometry and the angle of incidence of the bird on the integrity of the blade. This article combines and extends the earlier works on both the Lagrangian modeling methodology (Mao et al. AIAA J. Aircr. 44(2), 583-596, 2007) and the bird geometry studies (Meguid et al. 2008) in systematic and integrated manner. Both the bird and the blade were simulated