Welded Wire Fabric Designation

Smooth wire develops anchorage of the steel at the welded intersections.

Welded wire fabric designation.

Typically structural laps for welded wire fabric are a minimum length of 6 overhangs for plain wire and 8 including overhangs for deformed wires. Although the new designations are more than 20 years old many engineers find this cross reference helpful. Welded wire fabric properties for reinforced concrete. Per new designation 100 sf by w number old designation by steel wire gauge.

The code requires that one or two cross wires depend ing on type of wire occur in structural laps of wwr. 6 x 6 w4 x w4. Deformed wire structural laps when no cross wires. 6 x 6 w1 4 x w1 4.

6 x 6 6. 6 x 6 w2 1 w2 1. 6 x 6 8 8 040 040. Wire reinforcement institute your source for timely objective credible information on the uses and benefits of welded wire reinforcement wwr.

Exact w number size for 2 gauge is w5 4. Current designation by w number previous designation by steel wire gage longit. 6 x 6 10 x 10. Rolls 6x6 w1 4x 1 4 6x6 10x10.

6 x 6 8 x 8. Welded wire fabric is ava i l a b l e with either deformed or smooth w i re s as indicated earlier. Welded wire fabric style designation. Wires for welded wire reinforcement smooth wire astm a185 style designation.

Therefore the term welded wire fabric has been replaced with the term welded wire reinforcement in this specification and in related specifications. 6 x 6 10 10 028 028. Sm o o t h welded wire fabric has a yield s t r ength of 65 000 psi and deform e d f a b r ic has a yield of 70 000 psi. Style designation steel area sq.

The new designation of wire mesh does seem more complicated than the old. Panels sheets 6 x 6 w1 4 w1 4. In the smooth fabric the smaller. Lbs per types stocked.

Weight lb 100 ft 2 6 x 6 w2 9 x w2 9. Welded wire fabric. 6 x 6 w2 1 x w2 1. 2 ft in x y.

The w1 4xw1 4 means the same thing as 10 gage by 10 gage but the number 1 4 designates the cross sectional area of the wire in hundredths of a square inch. Common stock styles of welded wire fabric exact w number size for 8 gauge is w2 1. In this slide lists common styles of welded wire fabric including the old and new designations. The wire reinforcement industry prefers the term welded wire reinforcement wwr as being more representative of the range of products being manufactured.

Concrete reinforcement style designation steel area weight new designation old designation sq. 6 x 6 w2 9 w2 9.