Predictive Modeling of Bending force On AISI 304 during V- Bending Process

Metal forming plays a very important role in producing industries. In industrial sector the great value among various manufacturing operations due to its advantages such as cost effectiveness, enhanced mechanical properties, flexible operations, higher productivity, considerable material saving. The objects is that we use in our daily life are man-made, engineered parts, which are acquire from some raw material through some manufacturing process by using various metal forming process. The metal forming process are classified into compressive forming, tensile forming, combine tensile and compressive forming, Bending, Shearing etc. are widely used to produce a large number of simple to complex components in automotive, aircraft, household, defense and nuclear applications. Sheet metal bending is a widely used sheet metal forming process in which a force is applied to a sheet metal blank to form the desired shape. During bending, the metal is deformed plastically along a straight line to change its shape and is employed with the trial-and-error method. The accuracy and success of the bending process depends upon the operating parameters as well as the material properties. Components of different cross sectional profiles like cylindrical, conical, elliptical, oval, etc. are manufactured by sheet metal bending process. There are number of existing techniques available for the bending of plates, such as stampbending, stretch-bending, press-bending, and roll-bending. All the above mentioned techniques, except roll bending, requires heavy investments in tooling in order to bend the plates for different radii. So V bending is a more flexible, effective and more efficient than other bending processIJSRED - International Journal of Scientific Research and Engineering Developmen