Assessing transferred energy in drone impacts using rigid impactor tests

Zdeněk Svatý; Pavel Vrtal; Luboš Nouzovský; Petr Zlámal; Jakub Nováček

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0342560

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Assessing transferred energy in drone impacts using rigid impactor tests

Zdeněk Svatý,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Forensic Experts in Transportation, Faculty of Transportation Sciences, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
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Pavel Vrtal ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Pavel Vrtal, Luboš Nouzovský, Petr Zlámal, Jakub Nováček

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: vrtalpav@fd.cvut.cz

Affiliation Department of Forensic Experts in Transportation, Faculty of Transportation Sciences, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6463-848X

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Luboš Nouzovský ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Pavel Vrtal, Luboš Nouzovský, Petr Zlámal, Jakub Nováček

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Forensic Experts in Transportation, Faculty of Transportation Sciences, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0428-3514

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Petr Zlámal ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Pavel Vrtal, Luboš Nouzovský, Petr Zlámal, Jakub Nováček

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Validation

Affiliation Department of Mechanics and Materials, Faculty of Transportation Sciences, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
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Jakub Nováček

Contributed equally to this work with: Pavel Vrtal, Luboš Nouzovský, Petr Zlámal, Jakub Nováček

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Forensic Experts in Transportation, Faculty of Transportation Sciences, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
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Assessing transferred energy in drone impacts using rigid impactor tests

Zdeněk Svatý,
Pavel Vrtal,
Luboš Nouzovský,
Petr Zlámal,
Jakub Nováček

Published: February 12, 2026
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0342560

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