Bending For Sheet Metal

This is done through the application of force on a workpiece.

Bending for sheet metal.

Commonly used equipment include box and pan brakes brake presses and other specialized machine presses typical products that are made like this are boxes such as electrical enclosures and rectangular ductwork. Bending is one of the most common sheet metal fabrication operations. Also known as press braking flanging die bending folding and edging this method is used to deform a material to an angular shape. The inside bend radius should be equal to the thickness of the material that you re forming.

Bending sheet metal by hand is a manageable task if the piece of sheet metal is small and thin enough to handle. 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. This neutral line. The force must exceed the material s yield strength to achieve a plastic deformation.

To think about bending a sheet of metal that has appreciable thickness focus on an imaginary central sheet the so called neutral line or neutral axis within the thickness.