Flow Forming Sheet Metal

In this study a fully annealed aluminum alloy 6061tubular preform was cold flow formed by using three rollers with a single pass forming.

Flow forming sheet metal.

Flowforming enables the one piece construction of assemblies and saves money in material inventory tooling and assembly. Global metal spinning solutions inc denn usa metal forming. With its polygonal tip geometry it forms a extruding hole and taps a thread. Metal forming lubricants and more.

This thread is able to accept a metric screw if it ever needs repair. As the world s premier flowforming manufacturer pmf can produce component shapes beyond the means of conventional metal forming at a more economical price. Flow forming is an advanced chip less incremental metal forming process which employs point deformation technique used to produce dimensionally precise long tubes. The innovative sheetmetal joining technology provides positive technical and economical benefits.

In fact flow forming can be considered to be a specialized kind of spinning process. Flow forming today produces parts for the nuclear oil and gas chemical and medical industries among others. This metal forming process enables pmf to manufacture finished parts using less material and therefore it is cost effective. We form one piece component shapes which nobody else can.

Kent does bead forming louvers doming and dishing and even makes offsets hems and artwork with these tools. Better yet with our extensive range of processes we can make more than just traditional cones and cylinders. The flowform screw heats up and penetrates the sheet metal. Input of flow curves as a function of plastic strain strain rate and temperature in most cases flow curves are determined using uniaxial tension tests.

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