Expanded Metal Sheets With Diamond Openings

This metal sheet is uniformly slit and stretched forming diamond shaped openings in the sheet that allow for the passage of light air heat and sound.

Expanded metal sheets with diamond openings.

Decorative expanded items are popular in shelving signage and ceiling tile applications. Direct metals offers expanded metal materials such as aluminum carbon steel galvanized steel or stainless steel. Features of standard expanded metal. It is frequently used for flooring walkways security cages machine guards or decorative ornamentation.

Expanded metal sheets are created by slitting and cold forming metal as it expands in a press. Stainless steel expanded metal is a corrosive resistant sheet product that is slit and stretched to form diamond shaped openings that allow liquid sound and air to pass through. These sheets are available in stock sizing and can be custom cut. The strands and bonds of the expanded metal are set at a uniform angle to the plane of the expanded metal sheet.

More product details close. This gives the product added strength and rigidity while maintaining skid resistance and maximum air circulation. The strands and bonds of the diamonds in the sheet add strength and rigidity. Raised or standard expanded sheets offer a skid resistant surface and a high strength to weight ratio.

The diamond shaped openings have a slightly raised surface which assists in maintaining the metal s skid resistance properties. Steel expanded metal offers savings in weight and metal free passage of light liquid sound and air while providing a decorative or ornamental effect. Mil m 17194d astm f1267 91 type i standard raised type ii flattened smooth surface. Flattened expanded metal is available in aluminum carbon steel stainless steel titanium and many other alloys.

This process creates diamond shaped openings that are nominally measured the long way of the diamond lwd and the short way of the diamond swd. Steel expanded metal is a sheet product that has been slit and stretched to a wide array of diamond shaped openings. Raised diamond shaped pattern on aluminum sheet is strong and lightweight. Expanded metal sheets diamond openings mesh the most versatile and economical expanded metal mesh product is made from the sheets or coils of mild steel galvanized steel stainless steel aluminum which are uniformly slit and stretched forming a diamond pattern of openings in the finished sheet.

Use it to provide protection and traction on high traffic areas. Expanded sheet offers one piece construction that won t unravel and under normal circumstances and will hold its shape for many years. Commonly rhombic opening diamond opening is regarded as the traditional standard mesh opening types for expanded metal. Puruise supplies standard and irregular expanded metal in carbon steel and other metals.

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