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sheet metal stamping

sheet metal stamping

sheet metal stamping

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few questions

Does height & width should be same for Sheet metal machine bending?

how @ the width/height factor in hand bending?  

How does distortion & hand bending is related?

RE: sheet metal stamping

There's no requirement that the blank for a part be square.

The ratio of blank edge lengths is irrelevant.

In bending, whether by hand or by power brake, the material is caused to yield, typically to a small but finite radius.  That's an intentional change of shape.  The only distortion, meaning here unintended change of shape, is that the material swells a little at the inner radius where it contacts the punch, and also the width shrinks a little in the same area.  Within the width of the material, a compressive stress is induced at the inner radius, and a tensile stress is induced at the outer radius.  At the edges, there's no material to resist that stress, so it manages to produce a strain.  That's a little simplified, but I think it answers your question as I understood it.

 

Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA

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