Bending 3 16 Steel Plate

This is 3 16 thick plate that has been formed into a custom channel by being bent in two places to 90 degrees.

Bending 3 16 steel plate.

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. Again the minimum inside bend radius is even larger when bending with the grain. 3 16 steel plate hot rolled. Divide 50 by the material s reduction percentage as specified by the material supplier subtract by 1 and then multiply by the plate thickness.

Therefore the bend allowance added to the flange lengths is equal to the total flat. 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. 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. We also do plate rolling up to 1 0 thick and 10 feet in width.

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. You described a rough rule to find a steel s minimum bend radius. In steel between 0 5 and 0 8 in. Question about making a die to bend 3 16 ar500 plate.

As with tread plate tooling setups that clamp perforated material before bending can overcome a lot of problems. All the insight is helpful thank you. For this project a 12 hydraulic press will be used. I will be doing a total of 2000 bends.

The bend allowance and bend deduction are two measures that relate the bent length of a piece of sheet metal to the flat length. I need to bend it to 90 degrees. I have a piece of 9 wide 3 16 ar500 steel.