Hydroforming Metal Sheet

Hydroforming is a way of shaping metals such as aluminium low alloy steel brass and stainless steel into structurally solid and strong light weighted pieces.

Hydroforming metal sheet.

It is the preferred technique for shaping intricate components from ductile metals. Hydroforming is a quick efficient and reasonably priced metal forming technique that produces structurally strong components with minimum material wastage. Hydroforming is used to replace the older process of stamping two. It is a self contained system needing only electricity and air.

The blank sheet is driven into the die by high pressure water on one side of the sheet forming the desired shape. Hydroforming is a cost effective way of shaping ductile metals such as aluminium brass low alloy steel and stainless steel into lightweight structurally stiff and strong pieces. Hydroforming another area of specialty at hi craft metal products is another form of deep drawing used to form more complex shapes in hydroforming a metal blank is first placed on a ring. Sheet hydroforming uses one die and a sheet of metal.

Material thickness from 010 to 500 can be formed. One of the largest applications of hydroforming is the automotive industry which makes use of the complex shapes made possible by hydroforming to produce stronger lighter and more rigid unibody structures for. Tube hydroforming is the expansion of metal tubes into a shape using two die halves which contain the raw tube. Hydroforming is commonly used within the automotive and aerospace industry where complex shapes by hydroforming can be produced stronger lighter and more solid.

Sheet hydroforming is a metal forming process that uses pressurized hydraulic fluid in a flexible diaphragm to shape sheet metal against a single tool. Practically all sheet metals capable of being cold formed carbon steel aluminum stainless steel copper brass precious metals inconel nickel alloys titanium haynes 188 and others can be hydroformed. A steel punch then rises through the ring forcing the sheet metal up into a rubber diaphragm backed by a pressure dome filled with hydraulic fluid. The process can create a wide range of complex geometric shapes from a variety of materials including aluminum steel stainless titanium niobium inconel copper composites and more.