Tunalover
Mechanical
- Mar 28, 2002
- 1,179
Folks-
I'm in the process of writing a drafting/design manual for our department and need to provide minimum inside bend radii for various grades of sheet aluminum. Can anyone provide a list of reasonable guidelines for 5052-H32 and 6061-T6? If you have guidelines for other alloys that would be helpful. By the way, I know that the Aluminum Association provides values but these values are so conservative that they do not fairly represent what the industry can produce. Please group in order of Difficult, Moderate, and Easy and assume the manufacturer has modern equipment. Please provide tolerances as applicable. Thanks in advance for your valued inputs!
Tunalover
I'm in the process of writing a drafting/design manual for our department and need to provide minimum inside bend radii for various grades of sheet aluminum. Can anyone provide a list of reasonable guidelines for 5052-H32 and 6061-T6? If you have guidelines for other alloys that would be helpful. By the way, I know that the Aluminum Association provides values but these values are so conservative that they do not fairly represent what the industry can produce. Please group in order of Difficult, Moderate, and Easy and assume the manufacturer has modern equipment. Please provide tolerances as applicable. Thanks in advance for your valued inputs!
Tunalover