Bending 3 16 Steel Plate

3 16 steel plate hot rolled.

Bending 3 16 steel plate.

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. You described a rough rule to find a steel s minimum bend radius. I need to bend it to 90 degrees. 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.

I will be doing a total of 2000 bends. Divide 50 by the material s reduction percentage as specified by the material supplier subtract by 1 and then multiply by the plate thickness. 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. This is 3 16 thick plate that has been formed into a custom channel by being bent in two places to 90 degrees.

In steel between 0 5 and 0 8 in. We also do plate rolling up to 1 0 thick and 10 feet in width. All the insight is helpful thank you. Again the minimum inside bend radius is even larger when bending with the grain.

40724 hilden i didn t look too closely when i picked it up could my welding have warped it that much. Our shop has the ability to do plate bending up to 10 feet in width and 3 8 plate bending up to 18 feet in width using our 500 ton press brake. Therefore the bend allowance added to the flange lengths is equal to the total flat. The bend allowance describes the length of the neutral axis between the bend lines or in other words the arc length of the bend.

Question about making a die to bend 3 16 ar500 plate. 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. The bend allowance and bend deduction are two measures that relate the bent length of a piece of sheet metal to the flat length.