Deep Drawing Stainless Steel Sheet

Tooling material must be of sufficient hardness with a highly polished surface finish.

Deep drawing stainless steel sheet.

Can create deep parts while avoiding welds. Lower cycle times per piece than metal spinning and welding operations. Benefits of deep drawing with stainless steel. Monolithic parts can be formed from a single piece of sheet or plate material.

Deep drawing stainless steel stainless steels are frequently deep drawn into difficult shapes often without intermediate annealing. It is thus a shape transformation process with material retention. They are very formable and the austenitic grades have substantially higher ductility than carbon steels. Deep drawing is a manufacturing process that is used extensively in the forming of sheet metal into cup or box like structures.

Stainless steel and not rust free as often indicated is one of the hardest materials for deep drawing. While ferritic grades are less formable they still have outstanding ductility and can be deep drawn easily. Deep drawing stainless steel due to the rapid workhardening rates of stainless steels more press power and press energy is required. This is achieved by redrawing the part through a series of dies.

Rather uniform material thickness can be achieved in stainless steel shapes. The process is considered deep drawing when the depth of the drawn part exceeds its diameter. Deep drawing is a sheet metal forming process in which a sheet metal blank is radially drawn into a forming die by the mechanical action of a punch. This process is sometimes called drawing and is not to be confused with the bulk deformation process of drawing discussed earlier.

Because of its extensive experience with this material geerts is unrivalled in its ability to manufacture excellent products. Frequently a 100 percent increase compared to plain carbon steel of the same thickness is required.