FIELD: production of porous permeable materials from metal fibers; production of high-porous structural materials; manufacture of flame arresters, noise silencers, catalyst carriers, moisture separators, radiators, coarse filter. SUBSTANCE: proposed method includes imparting shape of hollow balls to fibers; outer diameter of balls is equal to Dball = cdfib, where c is index of ball from 5 to 90 and dfib is diameter of fibers at porosity ranging from 10 to 99.9%; then balls are subjected to molding and sintering which may be combined in one process performed at load of 10-3-1000 (N/sq mm). EFFECT: improved structural, hydrodynamic and mechanical characteristics of fibrous porous materials. 13 cl, 1 tbl, 7 ex
