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The manufacturing process of large crankshafts is affected by undesirable bending of the shaft blank at the heating and heat treatment stages, as well as at the forging step. In line elimination of the shaft blank bending is a time consuming and expensive operation. Identification of reasons of the shaft bending and identification of possibilities of avoiding this bending is an important theoretical...