Sheet metal manufacturing and services the following sheet metal gauge size reference chart gives the weight and thickness of sheet metal given as a gauge sometimes spelled gage and indicates the standard thickness of sheet metal and wire for most materials as the gauge number increases the material thickness decreases.
Common aluminum sheet metal gauges.
16 ga crs is 2 5 pounds per square foot.
0135 0 3 0113 0 3 0141 0 3 dimension in inches millimeters.
0149 0 4 0126 0 3 0156 0 4 29.
An aluminum sheet metal thickness refers to the thickness of an aluminium sheets a flat square or rectangle piece of aluminum material with a thickness of between 0 2mm and 500mm a width of 200mm some are even 50mm and above and more and a length of 16m or less.
General information of aluminum sheet thickness.
Thus a 10 gauge steel sheet which has a thickness of 0 1345 inches will weigh 41 82 0 1345 5 625 pounds per square foot.
For example in one gauge system 18 gauge steel measures 0 0478 inches thick but 18 gauge aluminum is 0 0403 inches thick.
In the uk the birmingham gage bg is used for a variety of metals and should not be confused with the birmingham wire gage bwg which is used for wires.
The brown and sharpe gage also known as the american wire gage awg is used for most non ferrous metals such as aluminum and brass.