Mikhail Yulievich Bal'shin: Development of the Scientific Bases of Fiber Metallurgy

The main aspects of theory for preparing materials from original components in a dispersed state that comprise the scientific bases of fiber metallurgy developed by Bal'shin are considered. This relates to ideas about features of the contribution of the flexibility and stiffness of structural elements to volumetric deformation of porous bodies with a fibrous structure; features of the compaction of objects made from fibers with respect to stress governed by fiber resistance to bending (the contact equation of compaction), and development of the elastic aftereffect accompanying this process; fundamental principles of forming a set of physicomechanical properties of porous fiber materials based on ideas about the contact (critical) cross section of a porous body.