Cold bending DIN 6935

of flat steel products

30 April 2018 15:57

General
This method of calculation applies to bent parts of flat steel products for use
in steel construction and in general mechanical engineering.
When bending flat rolled steel, such as sheets, strips, wide flat steels, etc. is considered
to take the rolling direction, because of better suitability for bending as possible transverse to the
rolling direction
to be bent.

Bending radius

r bending radius
a bending angle
b opening angle
The bending angle a can be between 0 ° and 180 °.
The Thickness is in the rounding up about 20% lower.

To achieve uniform curves on bending rails, it is recommended that only bending radius be
used for bending
to choose from the following series. The bold values are to be preferred.

Table 1 gives the smallest permissible bending radius, which at certain sheet thicknesses
and
Materials for the applicable bending machines can be selected. The specified values
apply to bending angle a £ 120 °. For bending angles a> 120 ° insert the next higher table
value,
e.g. would be when bending transverse to the rolling direction of sheets of QSt 42-2 with
the thickness s = 6
mm the smallest permissible bending radius r = 10 mm for a £ 120 ° and r = 12 mm for a
<120 °.

Table 1: Smallest allowable bending radius r

Calculation of the stretched lengths

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Elongated length = a + b + u. Depending on the value of the bending angle, u is different and
represents one
Compensation value that is negative or positive at opening angle b from 0 ° to 65 ° (exact
value 65 ° 24'30 ")
and at opening angles over 65 ° can only be negative.
Stretched lengths should be rounded to the nearest millimeter.

Opening angle b 0 ° to 90 °: Compensation value u:

Opening angle b> 90 ° to 165 °: Compensation value u:

Opening angle b> 165 ° to 180 °: Compensation value u = 0 The values for u are negligibly small, the
Accuracy is sufficient for the practice.

K Factor
Correction factor k for determining the cutting lengths of bent workpieces
The correction factor k indicates the deviation of the position of the neutral fiber s / 2 and is
calculated

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For r: s> 5 the equation is no longer valid, then k = 1 has to be set.

example
Material: Q St 37-2 (steel grade up to 390 N / mm² tensile strength)
Completion:
Sum of leg lengths 50 + 170 + 256 + 50 = 516

For b = 90 °, r = 20, s = 12, u = - 25.41

for b = 45 °, r = 20, s = 12, u = - 6,12
for b = 135 °, r = 20, s = 12, u = - 7.25
- 38.78
Total leg length 516.00
- Sum of compensation values - 38.78
stretched length 477.22
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