MichaelHill
Aerospace
- Aug 31, 2014
- 2
I'm trying to figure out if how our shop's been bending 0.050" 2024-T3 is truly the way we should be doing it. We bend it with a 0.125" radius, but checking out a lot of other sources say we should be bending it with a 0.160-0.170 radius, but I'm not sure if those are specific for aerospace applications. This will be used for a robotic application. I wasn't sure if the larger bend radii are some FAA mandated thing or what. The Machinery's Handbook was of no help (oddly enough). It just says Rmin = T*(50/r - 1) where T = thickness and r = "percentage reduction in a tensile test for a given material (%)" with no explanation. So I have no real idea what "r" actually is.
Thanks,
Mike
Thanks,
Mike