Bending 3 16 Steel Plate

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.

Bending 3 16 steel plate.

For this project a 12 hydraulic press will be used. 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. We also do plate rolling up to 1 0 thick and 10 feet in width. I will be doing a total of 2000 bends.

I need to bend it to 90 degrees. Divide 50 by the material s reduction percentage as specified by the material supplier subtract by 1 and then multiply by the plate thickness. 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. 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.

Of bend specific die opening radius thickness width of lower die opening gauge inches 1 4 5 16 3 8 7 16 1 2 5 8 3 4 7 8 1 1 1 8 1 1 4 1 1 2 2 2 1 2 3 3 1 2 45678 10 20 036 3 1 2 3 1 8 1 4 1 2 1 0. What is the minimum radius. This is 3 16 thick plate that has been formed into a custom channel by being bent in two places to 90 degrees. Metal pressbrake bending tonnage chart tons per ft.

It is the smallest inside bend radius that you can place in a piece of material before the tensile forces on the outside of the bend begin to tear the grains in the material apart. Again the minimum inside bend radius is even larger when bending with the grain. I have a piece of 9 wide 3 16 ar500 steel. A sharp bend will always be less than a minimum bend radius but a minimum bend radius does not need to be sharp.

You described a rough rule to find a steel s minimum bend radius.