Bending Stainless Steel Sheet

Like many other fabrication methods for stainless steel bending can be done using the same equipment used to bend other metals.

Bending stainless steel sheet.

It just won t really. 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. A difference is that working hardening rates may mean a need for more rigid equipment and higher power levels.

Most frequently expensive sheet metal bending tools called brakes are used to bend sheet metal but you can also complete this task without one. For most applications with stainless steel or aluminum you can get away with a zero radius bend on anything under 0 050 thick. This added hardness increases the amount of force needed to place a bend on a stainless steel sheet. Stainless steel 1 14 ga.

As you bend a stainless steel sheet the bend area cold hardens increasing the amount of pressure required to finish the bend. Stainless steel 1 20 ga. Equally equipment capacity will be much lower than for carbon steels. 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.

Material bend radii and minimum bend size charts. Bending sheet metal by hand is a manageable task if the piece of sheet metal is small and thin enough to handle. Mild steel 1 16 ga. Mild steel 2 12 ga.

Make your own sheet metal break. Mild steel 1 brake shear slip roll 1 metal forming 1. 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.

This is done through the application of force on a workpiece. Bending of stainless steel. This makes bending stainless steel with common hand tools difficult and a sheet metal brake is often required.