Ice or hail impact is an important design consideration in the aviation, energy, and astronautics industries. Physical testing of impact scenarios can be expensive and impractical. Numerical simulations provide cost effective and convenient tools for including hail impact scenarios in the design process.
Numerically simulating high speed ice or hail impact is challenging because of the extreme deformation, fragmentation, contact, and material model complexity.
Download the lasted Technology Brief from SIMULIA to learn how the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics functionality in Abaqus/Explicit can be used to analyze ice impact.