Sheet metal has found its application in heavy engineering industries like automotive and aerospace components, to light engineering industries like consumer goods viz. furniture. As a result, intensive researches and developments are carried out continuously in order to reduce weight and increase performance with safety requirements. Due to versatility of sheet metal, it is extensively used for visible and functional benefits. The functional benefits depend a lot in the designs and fabrication process, though individually but to a considerable extent. Out of all the industries, furniture industry has extensive design experimentation and employs sheet metal to a very significant level. Some of the design complications and overcoming them are readily incorporated as under.
Design complications and overcoming them
Bends and Bend reliefs
Bends, weldments, boring, rolling etc. are a few of many often occurring processes in the sheet metal fabrication for a…