MODELLING THE PROCESS OF COMPACTING FIBRE-REINFORCED COMPOSITE MATERIALS.

The authors develop a program simulating and calculating automatically the parameters of the process of compacting of FCM with brittle high-strength fibers and a ductile matrix in rolling along the fiber, with subsequent experimental verification of the calculation regimes of compacting. Numerical experiments were carried out to rank the variation factors with respect to the degrees of significance. The full-scale experiments confirmed the adequacy of the given model to the real process and efficiency of the calculated reduction regimes.