×
INTELLIGENT WORK FORUMS
FOR ENGINEERING PROFESSIONALS

Log In

Come Join Us!

Are you an
Engineering professional?
Join Eng-Tips Forums!
  • Talk With Other Members
  • Be Notified Of Responses
    To Your Posts
  • Keyword Search
  • One-Click Access To Your
    Favorite Forums
  • Automated Signatures
    On Your Posts
  • Best Of All, It's Free!
  • Students Click Here

*Eng-Tips's functionality depends on members receiving e-mail. By joining you are opting in to receive e-mail.

Posting Guidelines

Promoting, selling, recruiting, coursework and thesis posting is forbidden.

Students Click Here

Jobs

Strength of #9 3/4" opening Expanded Metal

Strength of #9 3/4" opening Expanded Metal

Strength of #9 3/4" opening Expanded Metal

(OP)
Forum Participants,

I am working on a project to get a walkway build around a test station and am having no luck finding the Strength on #9 3/4" opening Non Flattened Expanded metal.  I would like to be able to find the deflection at different loads and with different spans to give the Team building it that warm fuzzy feeling.  Any help or any questions I will appreciate and do my best to answer.

Thanks in Advance.

Alan M. Etzkorn  
Product Develpment Engineer
Wabash National Corp.
www.wabashnational.com

RE: Strength of #9 3/4" opening Expanded Metal

Alan,

Do you require data on strength (stress) or stiffness (deflection)?  I don't have either, but your question was unclear, which may affect the answers that you receive.  Also, it seems like this would be more appropriate in one of the other forums (Structural Engineers?).

RE: Strength of #9 3/4" opening Expanded Metal

(OP)
TVP

I would like to have both if anyone has them...I have been able to find the deflection up to #7 but that is as much as I can get.  From Extrapolating the data on #7 EM I feel very comfortable with using the #9 EM but I need to be able to give the Builders that warm, Fuzzy feeling.

Thanks for the response.

Alan M. Etzkorn  
Product Develpment Engineer
Wabash National Corp.
www.wabashnational.com

RE: Strength of #9 3/4" opening Expanded Metal

(OP)
EdStainless,

That is exactly the one I have printed out and used to extrapolate.  Of course the guys building it don't get the same warm, Fuzzy that I can from that, they want to see it on paper.

Alan M. Etzkorn  
Product Develpment Engineer
Wabash National Corp.
www.wabashnational.com

RE: Strength of #9 3/4" opening Expanded Metal

(OP)
Ok Folks,

I am back looking for information on the above material.  I need to determine load ratings for some shelving units that our company built for in house use and I cannot find any information pertaining to calculating Strength/Loading of Expanded Metal. I have been to the AMICO website but it only give deflection up to #7 Expanded metal and we have #9.

Anyone out there involved in the Manufacturing of Expanded Metal that can help me?

Alan M. Etzkorn  
Project Develpment Engineer
Wabash National Corp.
www.wabashnational.com

Red Flag This Post

Please let us know here why this post is inappropriate. Reasons such as off-topic, duplicates, flames, illegal, vulgar, or students posting their homework.

Red Flag Submitted

Thank you for helping keep Eng-Tips Forums free from inappropriate posts.
The Eng-Tips staff will check this out and take appropriate action.

Reply To This Thread

Posting in the Eng-Tips forums is a member-only feature.

Click Here to join Eng-Tips and talk with other members!


Resources