IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF POLYMER COMPOSITE MATERIALS BY INTRODUCING А FINISHING OPERATION FOR THEIR MICROWAVE TREATMENT

<jats:p>The article presents the results of a quantitative analysis of changes in the microstructure of cured polymer composite materials (PCM) under the influence of a microwave electromagnetic field with a frequency of 2450 MHz and an energy flux density (EEF) (17-18) ∙ 104 µW/cm2 at the final stage of the technological cycle. An increase in the number of microstructural elements in the experimental samples was found to be 2.5 times, while reducing their average size by 40 % and reducing the distance between them by 42 %.</jats:p>