Calculated images of the finite element simulation of the
parison deformation during the pre-blow, clamping and inflation
steps of extrusion blow moulding are shown in Fig. 2.
Initial finite element simulations used the experimental conditions
given in Table 1 as initial estimates for the integrated
optimisation-simulation. The results of the first simulation
were compared to the experimental results as a preliminary validation to ensure conformance for future simulations. The
results in Table 3 indicate that both the weight and average
thickness are well predicted by the process simulation