The determination of the optimum blank is one of the key and difficult problems in sheet metal forming. Reasonable design of the blank will decrease the possibility of wrinkle and fracture, and increase the formability obviously.
A Mesh Mapping Method based on the FEM results has been proposed to predict the optimum blank in sheet metal forming in this thesis. The method assumed that the adaptive technique was not been used during the finite element simulation. The basic idea of the presented met...