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Sheet Metal Work

The document discusses sheet metal work, including cutting, bending, and drawing operations. Sheet metal is strong yet lightweight and can be formed into many shapes. It is commonly used to make car bodies, aircraft parts, appliances, and more. Key terms include punch-and-die tooling used to cut, bend, and draw sheet metal in stamping presses, producing stampings. Sheet metal characteristics like elongation and anisotropy are important. Cutting involves shearing, blanking, punching, and trimming sheet metal. Bending and drawing are also discussed along with their various types.

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Sheet Metal Work

The document discusses sheet metal work, including cutting, bending, and drawing operations. Sheet metal is strong yet lightweight and can be formed into many shapes. It is commonly used to make car bodies, aircraft parts, appliances, and more. Key terms include punch-and-die tooling used to cut, bend, and draw sheet metal in stamping presses, producing stampings. Sheet metal characteristics like elongation and anisotropy are important. Cutting involves shearing, blanking, punching, and trimming sheet metal. Bending and drawing are also discussed along with their various types.

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Theory of Sheet

Metal Work
• Introduction
•Cutting and forming thin
Sheets of metal usually
performed as cold working.

•It is of high strength, good


dimensional accuracy, good
surface finish, economical
mass production.

•It has Cutting, Bending,


drawing etc. operations.
Advantages
•High Strength
relationship
•Low weight and thinness
•Durability : Sheet metals
are strong enough to
withstand pressure.
•Malleability : Sheet
metals are Can be
performed into virtually
Any shape desired.
Disadvantages
• Metal fabrication tools are more
expensive than plastic fabrication.
• Metals usually require many process
after its fabrication which makes it
extra expensive Like deburring,
Finishing, painting etc.
• If the metal is molten or viscous,
Metals are not ideal for Creating
advance shapes and geometries.
Parts made by Sheet metal
forming
• Car Bodies.
• Aircraft Fusaleges.
• Trailers.
• Office appliances.
• Fuel tanks.
• Cookware.
Sheet Metal Working
Terminology
“Punch-and-die”Tooling to perform Cutting,
Bending and drawing.

“Stamping press” Machine tool that performs


Most sheet metal operations.

“Stampings”Sheet metal products.


Sheet Metal
characteristics
•Elongation
•Anisotropy
•Residual stresses
•Spring back
•Wrinkling
•Quality of sheared edges
Cutting operations:

•Sheet metal cutting operations


involve the removal of sheet
metal material from larger sheets
by the application of high forces
on the cutting edge of the metal.
• The Material is cut and separate
if the shear stress due to applied
force will Exceed the
shearStrength of th material.
Types of sheet metal cutting

• Shearing Process.
• Sheet Metal Blanking.
• Sheet Metal Punching.
•Trimming in Sheet Metal.
• Deburring in Sheet
Metal.
Bending Operations
Metal Bending is a process
by which metal can be
deformed when applying
force to the subject which
causes it to bend at an
angle and form the
anticipated shape.
Types of Metal Bending

•Air Bending

• Bottom Bending

• Coining
Drawing Operations

Drawing is a metalworking
process which uses tensile
forces to stretch metals. As the
metal is drawn(pulled), it
stretches thinner, into a desired
shape and thickness.
The specific definition of sheet
metal drawing is that it involves
deformation over a curved axis.
Sheet Metal Drawing becomes
deep drawing when the
workpiece is drawing longer
than its diameter. It is common
that the workpiece is also
processed using other forming
process, such as piercing,
ironing, necking, rolling and
beading.
Different types of drawing
process
• Deep drawing process.
• Tube drawing process.
• Cold drawing process.
• Rod drawing process.
•Wire drawing process.
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