Development of a Methodology for Structural and Mechanical Characterization of Extended Sheets Made from Stainless Steels

Extended sheets are produced by a pressure cutting process to transform common sheets in expanded metal. These sheets are usually made of carbon steel, but due to their corrosion susceptible, studies have been developed with the aim to evaluate the viability of replacing these common steels by stainless steels. This study proposed an experimental method to characterize structural and mechanically samples of stainless steel extended sheets (410D, 444A, 439 and 304A) and a 1010 carbon steel sheet thicker than the others. This study has a practical importance because nowadays there are not standardized procedures to do this kind of evaluation. The obtained results showed that the methodology was effective for the proposed objective and that the expanded sheets made of stainless steels have a better performance in terms of mechanical strength compared to the 1010 steel sheet.