Abstract: Bird impact on aircraft windshields and canopies pose a significant hazard and result in unacceptable losses of aircrafts and crewmembers. This paper, based on the simulation of full scale bird impact tests, describes the results of the studies of dynamic response for bird impact on arc windshields of aircrafts, which are more used recently. Besides the properties of bird impact the method of calculating impact load are also investigated.

Key words: bird impact, dynamic response, arc windshield, strain rate