KERF BENDING – UM ESTUDO EXPERIMENTAL USANDO O PADRÃO DE CORTE BOWLING PIN

Kerf bending is a technique that increases the flexibility of a rigid material through a series of cut on its surface.It is a very simple, relatively fast and affordable way of bending a rigid panel.The spacing between the cuts is an important and easily modifiable parameter.It is intimately related to the resulting minimum bending curve of the kerfed structure, and an important parameter for optimal design of fixed curved surfaces created using the technique.Aiming the application of kerf bending in the subject of modelling and prototyping, minimum bending radii as a function of cutting spacings considering several cutting patterns and MDF panel thickness were obtained, and a simple procedure is presented to illustrate how an integrated solution for