Procedure No.

: QP-03-05
BENDING PROCEDURE
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CONTENTS

1.0 PURPOSE

2.0 SPECIFICATION OF BENDING MACHINE

3.0 WORKING PRINCIPLE

4.0 INSPECTION

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1.0 PURPOSE

This procedure applied to fabrication of pipe bending in accordance with the

requirements of the ASME Section I, EN 12952 - 5 and Client’s specification.
The procedure is applicable for shop & field assembly.

2.0 SPECIFICATION OF BENDING MACHINE

Model: SB-39NC
Name : NC Hydraulic Tube Bender
Application: The machine can cold-bend seamless tube, gas tube, stainless steel tube
and other nonferrous metal tubes. It is widely applied to Boiler, Shipbuilding,
petrochemical, aviation, vehicle wheel, construction, etc.
NC Hydraulic Tube Bender Model SB-39NC is an automatic hydraulic tube bender,
which consists of electrical system, hydraulic system and mechanical system.

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The machine is driven hydraulically, and controlled by micro-computer with touch

screen display.

3.0 WORKING PRINCIPLE

The generated hydraulic force by hydraulic pump under electrical control system is
transferred to oil cylinder. Oil cylinder drives the gear of main spindle with bending
former, and makes the main spindle with bending former move circumferentially.
Meanwhile, clamping oil cylinder and slipper oil cylinder hold the workpiece on the
bending former so as to attain the winding and bending purposes as bending former
rotating. The program of these actions is controlled by PLC.
3.1 Hydraulic system
After the motor rotates, oil pump inhales the filtered hydraulic oil in oil tank.
The outgoing oil is distributed to each magnetic change-over valve which
executes the following operations by oil cylinder. Clamping tube by clamping
die, hold tube by slipper, bending tube, boosting go forward, slowly bending,
slowly back mandrel, back mandrel, back clamping of clamping die, back
holding of slipper, back bending, back of boosting die and into mandrel.
The ex-works set pressure of relief valve is 70-75% of max.pressure, and the
customer can adjust it according to actual bending tube needs. In order to ensure
the accuracy, stability and quality of bending tube angle, the machine increases
the adjusting speed valve of bending tube and adjustable slow bending device.
To keep un-drifting of bending tube in a static state, we increase the check
valve. Holding forces of the clamping die and slipper is constant without
changing with fluctuating oil pressure. Check valve is installed under magnetic
change-over valve to control the holding speed of clamping die and slipper. In
order to ensure the pressure of clamping die higher than the one of slipper,
increase reducing valve under magnetic valve of assisting clamping device to
reduce the pressure with indication. Boosting go forward speed is synchronous
with bending tube speed with can be adjusted by tubular throttle valve. Slow
back mandrel speed can be adjusted by valve. The working returning oil firstly

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enters into cooler then oil tank. The liquid level and oil temperature of oil tank
℃
can be displayed by liquid meter. The oil temperature can’t exceed 60 , if not
the cooler must be cooled by cooled water.
3.2 Electrical system
The machine uses Touch screen and Man-machine interface dialogue operation
easily.
The bending angles and functions setup are input by touch screen, whose
performances are as follows:
- Operating model: Manual, Semi-automatic, Multi-angle.
- Set bending angle: Max. two bending angles for one tube are available
by touch computer. Least input increment is 0.1 degree.
- Holding time of clamping die can be set so that the tube is bent after tube
is held stably.
- Setting of slow speed bending tube is available. Last increment of fast
speed bending tube can be set as slow speed to avoid spring back. It can
not only raise production efficiency but also assure the accuracy of
bending angle.
- Setting of slow speed back mandrel angle is available, which can raise
the roundness of bending positions.
- Setting of having inlet mandrel or without inlet mandrel is available,
whose working is very flexible.
- Wrong information can be showed on the screen and can be eliminated.

4.0 INSPECTION
4.1 Wall Thickness
Wall thickness thinning calculated independently per radius, and minimum
thickness defined as :
S min = 4 rm x So / [4 rm + da]
Where:
Smin = min wall thickness in the back of the bend

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rm = nominal bend radius

So =minimum wall thickness of the tube defined by the specification
Da =nominal outside diameter of tube
4.2 Tube wall thinning
Tube wall thinning in the bends should not exceed a nominal 17% of original
tube wall thickness.
4.3 Ovality
Ovality at the bend shall not exceed 10% of the nominal tube outside diameter.
4. 4 Flattening
Flattening Tolerance on bending radius : +/- 1.5 mm
Tolerance on deviation from plane of bend : <=1.5 mm
Permissible deviation from plane of bend shall not exceed 1.5 mm as measured
from the points of tangency, The legs shall be reasonably straight.
4.5 Confirmation of Ripples on intrados of tube bends
(Tubes Dia. ≤ 80 mm)
Ripples shall not be acceptable. Deviations from nominal bend profile may be
accepted provided the departure from circularity at the peak and through of the
deviation meets the ovality requirement.

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