Sheet Metal



Sheet metal is simply metal formed into thin and flat pieces. It is one of the fundamental forms used in metalworking, and can be cut and bent into a variety of different shapes. Countless everyday objects are constructed of the material. Thicknesses can vary significantly, although extremely thin thicknesses are considered foil or leaf, and pieces thicker than 6 mm (0.25 in) are considered plate.

Sheets of stainless steel cover the Chrysler Building

Sheet metal is available as flat pieces or as a coiled strip. The coils are formed by running a continuous sheet of metal through a roll slitter.

The thickness of the sheet metal is called its gauge. The gauge of sheet metal ranges from 30 gauge to about 8 gauge. The higher the gauge, the thinner the metal is.

There are many different metals that can be made into sheet metal, such as: Aluminum, brass, copper, steel, tin, nickel and titanium. Sheet metal has applications in car bodies, airplane wings, medical tables, roofs for building and many other things.

We can categorized the process below:

* 1 Processes
o 1.1 Deep drawing
o 1.2 Cutting
o 1.3 Spinning
o 1.4 Press brake forming
o 1.5 Roll forming
o 1.6 Rolling
o 1.7 Stamping
o 1.8 Bending
o 1.9 Ironing
o 1.10 Wheeling
o 1.11 Incremental sheet forming