Bending Cold Roll Sheet Steel

This process will produce steel with closer dimensional tolerances and a wider range of surface finishes.

Bending cold roll sheet steel.

We go beyond the general rules of sheet metal bending as our customers want tight bend radii for sheet metal parts. Cold rolled high carbon annealed spring steel. Weldability cold rolled steels can be joined using accepted welding practices. Cold rolled steel sheet is essentially hot rolled steel that has been further processed to increase its strength and strength to weight ratio.

Category thickness minimum bend bend radius. The tables below show bend radii and minimum bend sizes for materials and tooling combinations stocked by protocase. 125 through 60 spring steel value add services. In general cold rolled steel sheet can hold tighter tolerances than hot rolled when machined or otherwise fabricated and provides a better overall surface finish.

003 through 250 widths in stock. 22 gauge 0 030 0 76 mm 0 5 12 7mm. Cold rolled steel cold working is a metal forming method that has many advantages over hot working. The steel is processed further in cold reduction mills where the material is cooled at room temperature followed by annealing and or tempers rolling.

Annealed spring steel can be used for many applications which is why it makes for a great general use steel. Cold formed steel cfs is the common term for steel products shaped by cold working processes carried out near room temperature such as rolling pressing stamping bending etc. The former is a process used with sheet metal. A minimum bend radius for one material thickness is not the same for another material thickness.

The terms are opposed to hot formed steel and hot rolled steel. It is possible to choose other bends if you require but additional lead time and tooling charges may apply. Cold rolled steels can be used to produce parts with forming ranging from simple bends to extreme deep drawing requirements. Hot rolled material on the other hand doesn t have grains like cold rolled steel so its strength when bent does not vary with the grain direction.

Bend stronger by bending against during forming cold rolled steel is strongest when a bend is made against the grain weaker when bent with the grain. Stock bars and sheets of cold rolled steel crs are commonly used in all areas of manufacturing. Cold rolled steel is essentially hot rolled steel that has had further processing. 22 gauge 0 030 0 76 mm.