Unleashing the Potential of Custom Metal Designs: Overcoming Limitations in Shaping Steel

On one of the application design engineers with Technics in Columbia. Today, I wanted to talk a little bit about shaping metal steels. So, we do mostly custom steel designs, and One of the more custom side of that is dealing with customers who got unique hardware situations where a circular steel is just not gonna work They need something to drop into a groove that has to have a shape of like a square, a rectangle, a slot, this happens a lot for just various different needs, and it's something that we have a lot of capability of doing. But there are some general limitations to doing this when trying to more medicines. Primarily, how we go about do doing sheet sales is we'll start with a circular seal, and we're gonna stretch it into its final form. This stretching process puts a lot of stress into the seals, and can cause some limitations when trying to actually go about that process. One of the biggest limitations that we try to give guidance to our customers is is that on any corner that is present in the shape design, it needs to be at minimum six times the cross section of the steel free height or steel cross section. Both of those are to be used interchangeably. One of the other things that we want to mention is, in those corners, the tighter that that corner is, it's gonna be more stiff. Because that's, you know, has when it's being compressed, has to move, both radially inwards and outwards. And in that process of moving, hoop Shessel will become a big factor. So in any of the joints where there is a shape design and there are corners present, you need to be aware that probably needs to be a little bit stiffer of a flange design in that location, so that you can accommodate this extra stiffness due to hoot stress. Hope this helps, and let's hope there's anything we can look at for you.