Stamped Sheet Metal Design Parameters

Although most stamping operations use sheet steel special dies can cut and form steel bars up to 3 in.

Stamped sheet metal design parameters.

3d cad files are converted into machine code which controls a machine to precisely cut and form the sheets into the final part. You can set the value to 0 to create bend with no radius. The parts are punched stamped or burned out of flat material that s easy to describe in 2d cad. Steel strip steel plate slit steel strip etc.

Change the thicknessif needed. Metal stamping is a cold forming process that makes use of dies and stamping presses to transform sheet metal into different shapes. The minimum fillet radius between the bottom and the wall of the tensile member should be greater than the thickness of the plate ie r1 t. Change the minimum bend radiusif needed.

Stamping is a process of shaping sheet metal parts using a press tool. Many different types of metal can be cut and formed in a die. The nominal thickness is above 1mm. Pieces of flat sheet metal typically referred to as blanks is fed into a sheet metal stamping press that uses a tool and die surface to form the metal into a new shape.

In order to make the stretching smoother generally take r1 3 5 t the maximum fillet radius it should be less than 8 times the thickness of the plate ie r1 8t. The minimum bend radius defines the minimum internal radius allowing the creation of a bend. Figure 1 50 sheet metal stretching design sheet metal stretch considerations. Sheet metal fabrication is the process of forming parts from a metal sheet by punching cutting stamping and bending.

Designing sheet metal parts as 3d solid models sounds odd. Typical sheet metal thicknesses used in stamping are 0 001 in. The sheet metal parameters dialog box is displayed. Since shear factor is about 0 5 the punching force is reduced by about 50 for the same example above punching force 78 54 1 5 0 345 3 09 0 060 25 0 5 shear factor 40 65 kn 4 64 tons 0 5 2 07 metric tons 2 32 us tons stamping design guidelines jonathan zhang.

Size range of steel plates and strips gb t708 2006 1 the nominal thickness of steel plate and steel strip including slitting steel strip is between 0 3mm and 4 0mm and the steel plate and steel with nominal thickness below 1mm have any size in multiples of 0 05mm. Click sheet metal parameters.