Bending For Sheet Metal

Most frequently expensive sheet metal bending tools called brakes are used to bend sheet metal but you can also complete this task without one.

Bending for sheet metal.

This is done through the application of force on a workpiece. Bending is one of the most common sheet metal fabrication operations. Commonly used equipment include box and pan brakes brake presses and other specialized machine presses typical products that are made like this are boxes such as electrical enclosures and rectangular ductwork. Bending sheet metal by hand is a manageable task if the piece of sheet metal is small and thin enough to handle.

Also known as press braking flanging die bending folding and edging this method is used to deform a material to an angular shape. The force must exceed the material s yield strength to achieve a plastic deformation. 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. Bending is a manufacturing process that produces a v shape u shape or channel shape along a straight axis in ductile materials most commonly sheet metal.

If you re bending 0 020 thick material use a 0 020 radius.