Engineering term

[khaos]

What is the name of a fold and or a pressed flute (no product removal) in flat metal whose job is to add rigidity/strength to the part?

Random examples here:
http://www.talkshopbot.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=30885&stc=1

I have cut some aluminum parts but I want to get these structural elements added to the part but don't know what the are called.

My thanks in advance.

[Chuck Keysor]

While I am/was an electrical engineer, where I worked, the mechanical engineers called the reinforcements you are referring to, "bosses". Maybe that is a shortened form of embossments. Consider my reply as suspect, and to be replaced by anyone who claims authority on this subject! Chuck:rolleyes:

[phil_o]

Ribs - not the BBQ kind.

Phil