Challenges in Bird Strike Analysis

Kurzfassung

The presentation given at this colloquium gave an overview on challenges in bird strike analysis with respect to simulation and testing. The first section treated the birds variability and how this can be handled in analysis. The second section covered how bird strike experiments are performed and what type of data can be extracted. In the third section, the generation of material and structure data from experiments to be applied in numerical simulation was the topic. There, the topic was built up for rotorcraft transparencies. In the fourth section the bird strike safety was discussed. In particular, current standardisation efforts of the international working group SAE G-28 to qualify artificial birds for physical testing were presented.