Bending 3 16 Steel Plate

For this project a 12 hydraulic press will be used.

Bending 3 16 steel plate.

We also do plate rolling up to 1 0 thick and 10 feet in width. Again the minimum inside bend radius is even larger when bending with the grain. In a previous bending basics article you mention a material s tensile reduction percentage used for calculating the minimum inside bend radius of various metals. I need to bend it to 90 degrees.

You described a rough rule to find a steel s minimum bend radius. Divide 50 by the material s reduction percentage as specified by the material supplier subtract by 1 and then multiply by the plate thickness. All the insight is helpful thank you. The bend allowance describes the length of the neutral axis between the bend lines or in other words the arc length of the bend.

As with tread plate tooling setups that clamp perforated material before bending can overcome a lot of problems. 3 16 steel plate hot rolled. Thick grade 350 and 400 may have a minimum bend radius of 2 5 times the material thickness when transverse bending while longitudinal bending may require a minimum bend radius that s 3 75 times the material thickness. 40724 hilden i didn t look too closely when i picked it up could my welding have warped it that much.

This is 3 16 thick plate that has been formed into a custom channel by being bent in two places to 90 degrees. The bend allowance and bend deduction are two measures that relate the bent length of a piece of sheet metal to the flat length. Dan i read a few of your bending brake posts and it sounds like your design just might do the trick for up to 3 16 as long as the strip is not too wide. In steel between 0 5 and 0 8 in.

I have a piece of 9 wide 3 16 ar500 steel. I will be doing a total of 2000 bends. I couldn t figure out what the upside down angle steel is for at the top since the plate underneath it is the one that clamps the work piece down.