If a metallic wire strand that is knitted into
a mesh structure, it can be formed into a durable sheet that is used for
different industrial purposes. This is called knitted wire mesh which is used
in different applications.
Knitted wire mesh is made the same way as how
your sweaters and stockings are made because it uses the metallic wires to be
knitted to produce a mesh of interlocking loops which can be moved relative to
each other at the same plane even without any distortion of the mesh, thus it
gives a knitted mesh a stretchy and a very flexible structure.
From its functional point of view, it is the
flexibility of knitted wire mesh that can provide you a lot of advantages
especially for industrial purposes.
There are different knitted wire mesh forms
that you can use, and one of it is the crimped knitted wire mesh that is a
processed knitted wire mesh product that is used in making compressed units for filtration,
flame arrestors, as well as shock mounts. This type of mesh can be formed
through two methods; first is the pulling of a custom made die in compressing
the material, and second; it is formed through running the mesh through a
calendaring roller to make a continuous strip of compressed mesh.
The finished product is highly available in
different densities according to the metallic volume of the mesh that usually
ranges from ten to seventy percent that depends on its performance required for
the application of the mesh.
Another type of mesh form is the shaped
knitted wire mesh that uses the natural resilient structure of the material in
maintaining its desired shape for your application. Because each of the loops
acts as a small spring if it is subjected to compressive stress or tensile as
the knitted metal acts to its inherent resiliency.
If it is not distorted beyond its yield point,
the material can resume its original form when the stress or the pressure is
removed even when it is compressed into a special shape or a high degree of
resiliency that is retained. The varying knitted structure, as well as its
diameter, and the material used in the shaped knitted wire mesh can be used to
make the part that can control the pressure that makes it as its main
characteristic.
The knitted wire mesh has many industrial
applications such as exhaust dampeners, seals, gaskets, flex-joints, chemical
separation and EMI/RFI shielding because of its flexibility, durability, and
the ability to be molded firmly with the equipment’s structural form.
There are different materials that can be made
into knitted wire mesh and these are; stainless steel, aluminum, copper, tinned
copper, Inconel 600, monel 400, Hastelloy c-276, tungsten, phosphor bronze 507
and 510, tantalum, platinum, gold alloy, gold plated copper, silver-plated
copper, and silver-plated brass.
