A bending operation is to be performed on a cold-rolled steel with a thickness of 5.00 mm. The part is shown in the figure below. The steel has a UTS (Ultimate Tensile Strength) of 420 MPa. Determine:
(a) The required blank size.
(b) The bending force if the bend is performed in a V-die with a die opening dimension of 40 mm.
(c) If the steel has a tensile reduction percentage of area (r) of 13% when failure occurs, whether this bending can be performed.
(d) If the designed bend radius is enlarged to 20 mm, and the other configurations are the same as the ones shown in the figure below, what will be the bend angle after springback. The steel has a yield strength of 350 MPa and Young's modulus of 200 GPa.