Numerical forming of continuous fibre reinforced composite material: A review

Abstract This article presents a survey of the literature about the numerical forming of continuous fibre reinforced composite material. This review shows that in spite of some models are defined with data from the meso-scale, all the numerical models of the forming process are computed at the macro-scale. This work highlights the numerical model versus the type of the model – continuous, discrete and semi-discrete approaches – as well as the understanding of the material behaviour – considered phenomena – and the forming process – draping, forming of prepreg and hot-forming.