Numerical forming of continuous fibre reinforced composite material: A review

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.