As a mechanical engineer who is involved with various weldments and other fabrications in steel and aluminum, I find it unusual to perform slenderness calculations on beams involved in bending. This may be very elementary to those in the structural engineering field but in my experience the...
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Hi,
I was doing a search for expanded metal strength and deflection tables and came across the above thread. I know it is old but I believe the Op was mistaken in his assumption of what the naming convention means for expanded metal. I believe he should be using a 1.8#...