You can bend it.
Bending spring steel sheet.
Tempered spring steel is commonly referred to as high carbon steel and is useful for a number of applications including.
Here s how it s done.
In the same situation the spring back of 304 stainless is 2 less than 301 stainless.
Spring steel is hardened carbon steel not so special.
This is done through the application of force on a workpiece.
But due to the hardening it remain its form.
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.
Quite normal for spring steel isn t it.
Blue tempered and polished spring steel.
When air forming you can define the degrees of springback d using the inside bend radius ir and material thickness mt along with a material factor.
Shaping a spring to it s desired shape.
The force must exceed the material s yield strength to achieve a plastic deformation.
The final bend radius and bend angle can be approximated from the sheet thickness k factor material yield.
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.
Per the chart if you re bending 1 mm cold rolled steel to an inside radius of 20 mm you would have to account for 9 degrees of springback.
Part of the fundamental manufacturing processes video series this program examines two of the oldest manufacturing processes.
Also known as press braking flanging die bending folding and edging this method is used to deform a material to an angular shape.
The spring back of sus301 stainless steel is bigger than sus304 stainless steel.
If you want to bend it you have to have to heat it to red glowin.
Last time i used 301 eh stainless steel and the spring back is 14 degrees.
Spring steels are known for their high yield strength which allows objects made of spring steel to return to their original shape after bending and forming.
Due to this elastic recovery it is necessary to over bend the sheet a precise amount to acheive the desired bend radius and bend angle.
The bending radius thickness stainless steel thickness.
After a bending operation residual stresses will cause the sheet metal to spring back slightly.
And it will spring back.
