Hydroforming is commonly used within the automotive and aerospace industry where complex shapes by hydroforming can be produced stronger lighter and more solid.
Hydroforming sheet metal forming.
Hydroforming flows the metal rather than stretching it.
For more than 40 years hydroform usa has led the way in all sheet metal applications by employing lean practices to manage large build packages including stretch forming brake and roll forming hydro forming cnc machining and chem paint.
Sheet hydroforming is a metal forming process that uses pressurized hydraulic fluid in a flexible diaphragm to shape sheet metal against a single tool.
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Typical materials fabricated in sheet metal hydroforming include steel aluminum brass copper titanium and high temperature alloys.
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.
We provide hydroforming solutions that quite literally stamp out all the drawbacks associated with the metal stamping process.
Hydroforming is a great way to form bends cones and other odd shapes using just water pressure from an ordinary garden pressure washer.
This video shows how.
The blank sheet is driven into the die by high pressure water on one side of the sheet forming the desired shape.
Manufacturing and assembly for the aerospace industry.
Hydroforming is used to replace the older process of stamping two.
Cost savings hydroforming services allows customers to cut down on upfront costs associated with traditional metal forming and stamping because the process eliminates the need for expensive dies cast plastics.
Minimal material thin out.
Sheet hydroforming uses one die and a sheet of metal.
Since 1923 the jones metal products company s history is one of proven investment in our customers employees and community.
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.
While metal stamping has been the conventional method of choice for metal forming there is little doubt today that hydroforming is the definitive future of metal forming.
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.
Irregularly contoured shapes are easily formed using the hydro form process because matching dies are not required.
Tube hydroforming is the expansion of metal tubes into a shape using two die halves which contain the raw tube.
