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Sheet Metal Design: The Definitive Guide (Engineer’s Handbook)

1.1 Selection of Sheet Metal Materials Sheet metal materials are the most commonly used materials in the structural design of communication products. Understanding the comprehensive performance of materials and the correct material selection have an important impact on product cost, product performance, product quality, and processability. Selection principle of sheet metal materials 1) Use common …

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6 Types of Sheet Metal Joining Techniques

Cold Forming Technology Analysis (Stainless Steel)

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Metal processing, in general, can be divided into two kinds: cold and hot processing. As the name suggests, the hot processing refers to processing materials after they are heated, such as hot rolled. In contrast, cold processing refers to process metal at normal temperatures, such as traditional turning, milling, chipping and grinding. Cold forming also …

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26 Types of Metal Forming Technology

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Die-casting The characteristic is to use the mold cavity to apply high pressure to the molten metal. The molds are usually made of stronger alloys, This process is similar to injection molding. Sand Casting It is to make the mold with sand. Sand mold casting needs to place the finished product part model or wooden …

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Metal Sheet Technique (The Complete Solution)

Sheet Metal Forming Processes and Equipment

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FIGURE 1 Examples of sheet-metal parts. (a) Stamped parts. (b) Parts produced by spinning. TABLE 1 General Characteristics of Sheet-metal Forming Processes (in alphabetic order) Forming Process Characteristics Drawing Shallow or deep parts with relatively simple shapes, high production rates, high toolling and equipment costs Explosive Large sheets with relatively simple shapes, low tooling cost but …

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10 Technological Process of Sheet Metal Fabrication

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The sheet metal technological process may vary, but not more than the following stated 10 processes. Design and draw drawings of sheet metal parts Also called three view drawing. Its role is to express the structure of sheet metal parts by drawing. Draw the expansion diagram which is to expand the parts with complex structure …

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71 Sheet Metal Processing Terminology

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Sheet Metal Processing Terminology 1-10 Shear Material: the process of getting rectangular workpiece by shearing machine. Using numerical control shearing machine for net size blanking, this is specially applied in piece processing with lower demand, most of the process engineer use shearing machine for blanking to reduce the processing cost. CNC Punch: refers to the …

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