A hand tool that uses springback to measure the strength of sheet steels to within ± 10 ksi is described. The device should be useful in stamping and fabricating plants that do not have tensile test equipment to prevent mild steels from being mistakenly formed into critical high strength parts.
A Portable Springback Tester for In-Plant Determination of the Strength of Sheet Steels
Sae Technical Papers
SAE International Congress and Exposition ; 1983
1983-02-01
Conference paper
English
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