Bending Stainless Steel Sheet Radius

Maximum sheet thickness for corten steel bent products is 4 mm.

Bending stainless steel sheet radius.

It is possible to choose other bends if you require but additional lead time and tooling charges may apply. The force must exceed the material s yield strength to achieve a plastic deformation. In other words if you re bending 1 8 sheet use a tool with a 1 8 radius to form the inside of the bend. Bending sheet metal by hand is a manageable task if the piece of sheet metal is small and thin enough to handle.

This makes bending stainless steel with common hand tools difficult and a sheet metal brake is often required although one technique to bend stainless steel using hand tools works well on shorter length bends. We go beyond the general rules of sheet metal bending as our customers want tight bend radii for sheet metal parts. As you bend a stainless steel sheet the bend area cold hardens increasing the amount of pressure required to finish the bend. So we bend a lot of mild steel.

The tables below show bend radii and minimum bend sizes for materials and tooling combinations stocked by protocase. The bend radii listed are standard minimum if manufacturing for aircraft and aerospace applications. These dimensions are all in relation to a 90 angle. Also known as press braking flanging die bending folding and edging this method is used to deform a material to an angular shape.

Bending is one of the most common sheet metal fabrication operations. Maximum sheet thickness for all other steel is 6 mm. Our bend radius rule of thumb is the minimum radius material thickness. Maximum weight is 40 kg.

Most frequently expensive sheet metal bending tools called brakes are used to bend sheet metal but you can also complete this task without one. Maximum sheet thickness for aluminum and stainless steel is 6 mm. This is done through the application of force on a workpiece. For most applications with stainless steel or aluminum you can get away with a zero radius bend on anything under 0 050 thick.

The bend radius you select may not be available if the geometry of the part will not allow us to bend with the specific tooling required to achieve that radius. 3 the percentage of elongation of stainless steel plate is lower than the carbon steel the bending angle of the workpiece r is larger than that of carbon steel or there is the possibility of cracks. It just won t really. 2 the stainless steel sheet has a strong rebound tendency compared with carbon steel when bending.

If your bend radius needs to be adjusted a member of engineering design services team will contact you before your design is manufactured. The minimum bend radius data shown in these charts is measured to the inside of the bend. Maximum dimensions are 2980 x 1200 mm.