@inproceedings{ba8c9295dacb439390ab82e5cc2cda65,
title = "HIGH FIDELITY AIRWORTHINESS BIRD AND DRONE STRIKE ANALYSIS OF ON-DEMAND AIR MOBILITY SERVICE AIRCRAFT",
abstract = "Aircraft are prone to foreign object damage, especially bird strikes during take-off and landing. Modern air taxis are expected to make more frequent stops to serve as viable competition to the current urban transportation system. To ensure safety, it is important that any passenger aircraft meets crashworthiness regulations against foreign object damage such as bird strikes and drone impacts. With flying altitudes being below 10,000 ft and more frequent take-off and landing schedules, air taxis are particularly susceptible to such impacts. In this study, finite element methods are used to investigate the forces exerted by direct and oblique impacts on such an air mobility service vehicle. A bird surrogate, modeled using discrete particles, and a quadcopter drone were used as projectiles. Effects from debris ricochet were considered as part of impact analyses conducted. Dynamic forces from several bird and drone scenarios were analyzed and compared with each other to investigate the post-impact behavior of the aircraft.",
keywords = "Air-taxi, Bird Strike, Drone Impact, Engine Ingestion, Foreign Object",
author = "Pradeep Vaghela and Hasan Raza and Eike Stumpf and Javid Bayandor",
note = "Publisher Copyright: Copyright {\textcopyright} (2022) by International Council of Aeronautical Sciences (ICAS) All rights reserved.; 33rd Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, ICAS 2022 ; Conference date: 04-09-2022 Through 09-09-2022",
year = "2022",
language = "English",
series = "33rd Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, ICAS 2022",
publisher = "International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences",
pages = "4223--4236",
booktitle = "33rd Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, ICAS 2022",
address = "Germany",
}