13. Heavy plate

By definition, these are products with a thickness greater than 4.76 mm and up to 200 mm or more. We won't consider the state of standards here, as a wide range of metals and alloys can be supplied in heavy plate, including carbon steels, alloy steels and aluminum alloys. Detailed information can be found in the article [BM 6 560] .

Their formability depends on the nature of the metal and largely on thickness. In fact, the specificity of this field is mainly due to two facts: the enormous forces required for forming and the rapid development of very high surface elongations (given...