Development and Validation of a Finite Element Model for Bird Strike Test

Abstract

A bird strike describes a collision between an aircraft and a bird or a group of birds. A bird strike refers to any collision between a moving vehicle and a fly creatures. Bird strike are studied through experiments or simulations. The testing method produces reliable results, close to reali-ty. However, these practical experiments are expensive and time-consuming. This study performs numerical simulation of bird strike phenomenon using SPH technique. This article presents how to build a bird strike model on LS-DYNA software. The results of the simulation were compared with experiments, demonstrating that the numerical method is a reasonable approach to examine bird strike problems.