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metal bending
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racookpe1978
Nuclear
Don't know.
1. What is the nameplate (rated capacity) of the press brake?
2. How sharp a bend is needed? What inside radius, outside radius is acceptable?
3. How wide is the metal piece?
4. How many are you making, and what percent failure are you willing to accept? Sometimes, for one-of amounts, you can accept 5 or 6 failures to get one good piece that did not crack. When, in a production run, you cannot tolerate 1 failure in 1000. Or 10,000.
5. How will test for failure, and what failure rate do you anticipate? Hint: How much (if any) cracking or delamination or bad radii or bad "springback" from nominal?
1. What is the nameplate (rated capacity) of the press brake?
2. How sharp a bend is needed? What inside radius, outside radius is acceptable?
3. How wide is the metal piece?
4. How many are you making, and what percent failure are you willing to accept? Sometimes, for one-of amounts, you can accept 5 or 6 failures to get one good piece that did not crack. When, in a production run, you cannot tolerate 1 failure in 1000. Or 10,000.
5. How will test for failure, and what failure rate do you anticipate? Hint: How much (if any) cracking or delamination or bad radii or bad "springback" from nominal?
See the formula below for approximation from Guidelines for
Fabricating and Processing Plate Steel
P = (0.833 x U x t2 x L)/W
P = estimated press load, tons
U = ultimate tensile strength, ksi
t = thickness of plate
L = length of plate to bend, inches
W = width of die opening, inches
Fabricating and Processing Plate Steel
P = (0.833 x U x t2 x L)/W
P = estimated press load, tons
U = ultimate tensile strength, ksi
t = thickness of plate
L = length of plate to bend, inches
W = width of die opening, inches
EdStainless
Materials
And what is the heat treat condition of the 4140?
If annealed then probably, Q&T it would be doubtful.
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P.E. Metallurgy, Plymouth Tube
If annealed then probably, Q&T it would be doubtful.
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P.E. Metallurgy, Plymouth Tube
racookpe1978
Nuclear
metengr said:
But the formula uses t2. Is that t x 2; or t/2 ; or "t2"?
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